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12a8e42bacad6ed982f03c923de470668b9300452c775e3016e714924d3380ea | ['380010d177a04b7cac8445ff9f4ee9ea'] | <PERSON> Oh please, only if you look at far-right broadcasters and bloggers. Is the NYT or MSNBC saying that? What a joke. I don't see anyone on left-leaning sites saying anything about even trying to identify or catch the shooter in Portland. In fact, when the news broke all I saw was "one dead in Portland". Nothing about what side the deceased or the shooter were on was mentioned until after <PERSON> tried to use <PERSON>'s death to stoke his base to vote for his sagging campaign.
Quit trying to paint these non-existent "world against us and is white supremacist" narratives that are small, not overwhelming. You're only exacerbating the divide in this nation. | f7f56a21507b96fd1a25f2724de469b5b231a3724b158cd93efa1caad3d2ba86 | ['380010d177a04b7cac8445ff9f4ee9ea'] | This article is what the Pulitzer Prize exists for.
Come on, America! People haven't had to wipe themselves since the Renaissance. There are no good reasons to avoid a washlet of some source. From smart toilets to hand-held bottles with strategically designed nozzles, you have options to be cleaner and better. The trees will prosper, and your underwear will smell better. Why cling to old habits, such as clinging? |
8f7ddd84cae89dac3ae756aafb847f7eb6b2fc9000ccfe5a574b503accefedc2 | ['38779c9fdf564aeaa58801501e1ff59a'] | On the eve of the inauguration I was at the Lincoln Memorial where an Arizona television crew saw my American flag motorcycle jacket and asked for a comment. I told them "The damage that man is going to do over the next four years is going to be monumental. It's going to dismantle everything this man (<PERSON>) stood for. Republicans like to claim <PERSON> as their own, but for them to devolve from that to what's going to happen on Friday is just frightening." I then pointed to the wall at <PERSON>'s Second Inaugural Address to the line "With malice towards none; with charity for all..." and told the reporter "That guy taking the oath has proven he has no charity. He has only malice. Malice and revenge."
But here's the larger point: <PERSON> does not work in a vacuum. He embodies and advances an entirely corrupt system; a buffoon enabled by quislings where all are held aloft by a cult. They exist dependent on each other. If one leg goes, it all collapses. But as satisfying as it is to watch Republican leaders willingly destroy their party, their integrity, and their personal reputations in real time, it’s tragically sad they’re destroying their nation in the process. Capitol Hill Republicans fear <PERSON> so much that it outweighs their oath to protect America and their cowardice is matched only by their groveling, lustful desire to appease him. That alone should sicken ever American and remind them to block all Vichy Republicans from any position of public trust. | 68332020ce1c5a852f874c9a86c48a175c0ee52b0255fa1da16ef6c286dc34e1 | ['38779c9fdf564aeaa58801501e1ff59a'] | The same skepticism some had when he pre-spun the death toll to suggest 100,000 dead Americans would be a sign of his skillful leadership, similar suspicions should be taken with his comments on self-medication with a cocktail of heat, light, and disinfectants.
Knowing that nothing matters to him except him, it's natural to suspect that he's pre-spinning signs of mental instability to accomplish his sole objective of saving himself. If he feigns mental illness, every misstep -- the lack of decorum, the insults, the firing of skilled experts, the widespread corruption, the lies about testing and cures through hydroxychloroquine -- will be written off to this unfortunate organic illness. Now a man to be more pitied than scorned, he gains sympathy from his base and, he may suspect, also wins in the larger court of public opinion because sympathetic citizens would feel that this poor man just isn't quite right.
In a life where scamming new marks was his one and only purpose, the truth is that <PERSON> has never been "quite right" and no amount of theatrics can outweigh his lack of empathy, sympathy, compassion, and competence. It's well past the point where Republicans must invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. The world has catered to him for a lifetime. We've reached the time when his lifetime of lies must come to a close in favor of the health, safety, and welfare of all Americans. |
27c82f82a330d52a30d4fba357d1cf3cffb35ae01b079460974c4950a82b5edb | ['3894058470b94080be76d09ea2e2d2fb'] | I'm genuinely horrified by the staggering unemployment and feel for the people who are now living with severe economic calamity. Those are real problems. Since the government won't or can't help enough financially, a phased reopening has to happen.
But people complaining after two months that they can't socialize or do anything "pleasurable" are just soft. I'm sorry. These are rich (that includes upper middle class) people problems. If you still have a sufficient income and two months of this is all it takes to break you, you need to to seriously reevaluate your inner fortitude. If all these people were alive in 1930, the US would have never recovered. | 93ee76d47dd5616a7351b372deaca2f50d661159557ed321b0a5b68ced6659c0 | ['3894058470b94080be76d09ea2e2d2fb'] | The editorial only mentioned Facebook...and mentioned it repeatedly. I didn't see any mention of Instagram or Snapchat. I'm discounting Tik Tok since most users are not 18 and Twitter since it banned political advertisements.
What this tells me is that for all the digital advantage the <PERSON> campaign seems to have, their digital campaign is most likely targeting the same people that Fox and TV advertising is. They may be hammering home the "<PERSON> good, <PERSON>/<PERSON> bad" message online, but it's to the same 30-40% of hardcore Trumpers who would vote for him anyway. |
c9268fa8ebbe4dd75abb3882fe0ac0369980f1bcb301403395ebeb359e7c14ae | ['38a8c714027d4c0aa9136506e68ae794'] | >The famous are ambassadors of the meritocracy; they represent the American pursuit of wealth through talent, charm and hard work.
For every talented celeb, there's 10 who are the result of being born in the right place, knowing the right people. To write that the famous are "ambassadors of the meritocracy" is a bold-faced lie. | 81530296585e2b395228ac4b17dfa24770c5bfdd837d9d09481acfa3798ff698 | ['38a8c714027d4c0aa9136506e68ae794'] | @Mr. <PERSON>
>If you're doing it for appearance alone, that's not the right answer
Why not? I've done many things for appearance alone - including spending time and money getting better clothing. I've also lost weight and I'm putting some effort into keeping it under control, for health reasons but also to try and be attractive. I don't see what's wrong with that.
I'm not going out of my way to judge people who have other priorities, but I think there isn't anything wrong with caring about one's appearance, provided it doesn't become a monomania. |
6fa24efce35add304d06614f34fb42dcefafd4ab79bea9503928179446282591 | ['38b4a473098e463e885e0892e8973752'] | I wish we could use the opportunity of economic collapse to shift the emphasis to an economy that works for everyone and the environment. I wish that America would wake up from the "american dream" and realize that we have bought into an unsustainable life style that is perpetuated by the 1%. I wish everyone would go on strike and that there would be a nation wide reset of a capitalist economy that is so off center, that the vast majority of citizens struggle to keep up, let alone participate. "Return to normal" is as much a death sentence as this or any future pandemic. | 82336fec2fac9b31a6810dbc0a7552aa6efedd52ce865e0d791caae22589f187 | ['38b4a473098e463e885e0892e8973752'] | I admire <PERSON> for his philosophy, steadfastness, and honesty. Please remember that our government is made up of many parts. If you were inspired by him, run for local office, state office. Perpetuate the progressive agenda. In order for meaningful change to happen, it will happen slowly and spread widely. The executive branch is only one third of the government - support progressives for the house and senate. The day will come when a progressive platform circa 2020 will be the norm. If that day is a little further down the road, don't for a minute believe it can't happen! Stay involved; stay strong. Be true to what you believe in! |
e76c9fb5bfe868834c256ceda0bbaa887786332c1bf84d7dadb8b8bf5e3962b8 | ['38e32d2f67604a2196b3e19841d13691'] | <PERSON>You re forgetting Australia. There have been a few deaths in the Eastern States but Western Australia, which has had closed borders for months, has only registered infections in returned travellers and mariners, all of whom go straight into two weeks quarantine. So far there has been no person to person transmission here. | 8a3efee60ed0b3959b7a05a264d7097d1d4bbb432c5e1fdc38205be8314e0698 | ['38e32d2f67604a2196b3e19841d13691'] | Here in Australia voting is compulsory. Everyone over the age of 18 must be registered with the Electoral Commission and anyone who doesn't vote is fined a small but significant amount. People do not have to actually cast a ballot but to avoid being fined it is necessary to have one's name crossed of the list at a polling place or apply for an absentee ballot. My chosen polling places have always been within walking distance of my home, usually a local school (voting is always on a Saturday). And there is always a sausage sizzle for a charity in the yard. |
9b348b456b57305da9f3f7e6c8693a81d62e142746f0cf92bec830f394cae97a | ['39bcf055e44c4760bf742ef11437b551'] | For seventy years Wisconsin had the finest county and towns roads in the nation. The political power of dairy farmers, the logic of getting their production to urban markets, and the political ethos of the day prevailed. The legacy of Fighting Bob La Follette prevailed until the era of the "Politics of Resentment." Now rural areas, more concerned about Milwaukee residents "ripping them off" vote for right wing legislators owned by <PERSON>, Americans for Prosperity and the Koch Brothers; they are pledged to lower taxes. | df1924e786383eebcc412ae68416d60d5272e43a5b9b5e7206620ec1d794b344 | ['39bcf055e44c4760bf742ef11437b551'] | We took the trip from Jackson and Michigan Avenue in Chicago to the Santa Monica pier in April, 2019. We used <PERSON> EZ66 which provides many of the overgrown 1920'3 and 1930's routes -- of the over 2000 miles we were on the I system less than 300 miles. That is a different view of the U.S. The museum in Flagstaff, which is free was worth a million bucks. The WPA projects tell a story -the statute in Santa Fe (CCC worker). The millions of abandoned cars, the run down motels and the pawn shops - musical instruments and construction workers tools. Broken dreams. We repeatedly ran into the same people along the route - perhaps half or more were European or Australian. Every Washington politician who opposes poverty, health, and housing programs should make the trip. |
4718973c67220670b93c170f96bc98fb5eb6dc9eb556aeb3bb3db152944e5e4f | ['3a0f26ce4e6d4299b40b052e30d60d72'] | <PERSON> you bring up a great point that I did not think about! You said that they are using digital cameras as this is a moment they want to remember forever. However, if that is in fact the case I'd be surprised that these workers just carry a digital camera or has one on hand. | 7443f46ce67c59215a7547eeab385e25e80efc7dd98bebdd95d64b6d2066f6c6 | ['3a0f26ce4e6d4299b40b052e30d60d72'] | I think this picture is recent to the times today as healthcare, factory, grocery workers and those on the frontlines are in the news and media for their fearlessness of exposing themselves to the virus for the people of our country. If this picture was in fact taken recently I would be curious as to why all the cameras shown in the picture are digital as I did not think many people used those anymore since we have mobile cameras. The people in this picture seem to be happy, and excited. this picture may have been taken of these workers' pre-pandemic, as they are not wearing masks or gloves. I cannot tell where they are as the picture only really shows the people. |
3c8ed63e51170a222b24f4c996172652b49c309f77dd802a5c191dd31244d5fd | ['3a1e5da3a39749ea85c9599dfe9967f9'] | <PERSON> The justification for the electoral system was racism. That was the reason it was created. The reason it continues to exist is that it prevents the true expression of the will of the people. The people who refuse to disband this system are people who do not want a true democracy and feel that they can gain power more easily by keeping the system as it is. There is no other reason for supporting its continued existence. Plain and simple. | 763e7ae47dab6cedbade65ca53772b21e8d282fe074425a6209c9b68b0201442 | ['3a1e5da3a39749ea85c9599dfe9967f9'] | Now, the latest excuse that several Republicans are using: Yeah, he did it, but it does not "raise to the level" necessary for impeachment. That comes right after the story that the House investigation was rushed and incomplete and then rejecting evidence in the Senate. You would think people like <PERSON> would be embarrassed. They cannot possibly be so ignorant as to believe what they are saying. And although ignorance might be an excuse for some of the Republicans, dishonor cannot be excused. They know no shame. |
27b69cd06fd9204ec9b5ba78ec6a41907abd05c75618091d0e78ad4c7b7250ea | ['3a2d126dcb9f4e59ac5bd7b898918aef'] | AOC has an exaggerated influence. To be sure, her initial victory was newsworthy. But, she has been built up by right wing media. Because of many of the ill-informed or outright inaccurate comments she has made (even in this interview), she is a perfect antagonist for the <PERSON> dominated GOP. <PERSON>, if you want to win, don't meet with her. <PERSON> didn't bring out the young voters. Focus on building a coalition. If AOC really wants to make a difference, rather than tilt at windmills, she should focus on reasonable(ie achievable) outcomes. When did anyone in this country really want Medicare as our standard for healthcare? Remember "politics is the art of the possible." To the NY Times, why not focus on Democratic congressmen in moderate districts and have this same conversation? | 3725a23d611f5733f4271772e5576905c3976a8a394e2e5638318c539398f15e | ['3a2d126dcb9f4e59ac5bd7b898918aef'] | <PERSON>, if this is the real YOU, then maybe I will change my mind that you are not a thinker who has had to turn himself into knots to justify his world view in light of overwhelming evidence that Trumpian Conservatism in morally wrong.... you understand what is righteous in this critical moment.
Seriously, this a thoughtful and honest piece. |
f44145ba1774d8e64f9b9fe97c071289a7b9ad8278ee6600fafb43fcdd43bec6 | ['3a312802db4a4f45b4b7ecc24384378c'] | My thoughts exactly. Where was Mr. <PERSON> for the last four years?
Most tellingly, Mr. <PERSON> said in an interview on NPR that he was still going to vote for the two GOP senatorial candidates he had just gotten done calling cowards.
So the message to those cowards, to trump, to <PERSON> and all the rest of the GOP establishment is clear -- go ahead, insult and defame GOP election officials all you want, they will still vote for you, you will pay no price. | 5d3248d4f22cf215e1407d1bbf67f4d7a5983185a8ad04d9c07aeb4459f58fab | ['3a312802db4a4f45b4b7ecc24384378c'] | @John
You're welcome to your opinion, but this isn't about numbers, which were always estimates at best.
This column is about the timing of the Administration's response and what the administration said in light of what it knew. I note that you don't deny the facts as stated.
If hiding information makes trump a great leader he is that and more. |
0da4651a77db101c2216e7dcb9d3faf2d4de2d9c391f4a20b735632b67358481 | ['3a34829b214b42419b7c22b6ab7359ac'] | Great, we off-ed a bad dude. As we perhaps should have. But puffing our feathers about our military might protecting us and our interest in the aftermath is just silly. They ain’t gonna back down. And we live in a time of asymmetrical warfare. It’s gonna get real and ugly soon. And far reaching stuff is gonna easily happen and can’t be prevented despite our zillion dollar military. | 2a27be393f35927238b4aee7c1a21958fb36cf084c0728eb1647a9a65d926b9e | ['3a34829b214b42419b7c22b6ab7359ac'] | The trajectory of college costs in the US is insane when you really think about it and compare it to other developed nations. As someone who has two children under ten and has been regularly stressed out about paying for their higher education since the day they were born, change is welcome news. It's about time the current system breaks, re-thinks, and re-tools. There is so much talk about college debt, yet few folks hold the institutions accountable. It's time. Perhaps a starting point for some of these schools would be to spend less money on posh dorms, food and campus centers, which sadly help their "rankings", and focus more on the core mission of education. |
1137854ba6cee6b5e15d317b79b0a630de929589756be08fd9fe2a809cf58df9 | ['3a744c737dc3450f824a32a5c6513323'] | Thank you for writing about your father and father-in-law. Coming from a wildly divergent place from you, I am floored that you’ve somehow read my heart in describing my own father and father-in-law in very elemental ways. Hold tight to <PERSON> - and I’ll hold tight to my own <PERSON> - when days are difficult with our own fathers.
Your words are a gift to my heart this morning. | 2ff4d9cee4325c2d9c186ab7de9194a0d9a0ed1253aacbf5064a01c1571aaaa2 | ['3a744c737dc3450f824a32a5c6513323'] | I like decent enough wine and good food, but for the life of me, I cannot understand the fragility of the egos staked in this situation. I see no difference between what these male "master" sommeliers have done and <PERSON>. It's just gross - why pretend otherwise? Is wine worth this? I don't think I'm alone in saying it's not.
Throw the whole "master" sommelier system out and start over. What else are you gonna do? |
971cb70b0faf262a4a0e25f9ad80673969ae5038e86796ee3e45409a4156de40 | ['3a841572ca764a3c8e57d3d37a05245a'] | @Lisa Though I do NOT agree with the rioting that is occurring in Minneapolis, I think that an effective way to end racism is to go to protests that are non-violent and safe. What <PERSON> is saying is only partly true--are riots bad? Yes. But the real question we should all be asking ourselves is, are the necessary? And if they are, how can the people of the United States change that? | 70e5d81bd7cf65adff8222106694fac54de6492bdcefbb3c147fd5a4dfb78991 | ['3a841572ca764a3c8e57d3d37a05245a'] | The weaknesses I face are nothing compared to my cousin's, <PERSON>, who lives in Italy with my aunt and uncle. Only two people in a family may be out of the house at one time there. In Italy, even before COVID 19 struck, there were few stores that sold toys for toddlers, especially for growing two-year-old's who need to be entertained. The virus is common in Italy because many people smoke there and tap water is unclean, or at least in Vicenza were my cousin lives. But before this pandemic, there was not family time during the day, because both of <PERSON>'s parents go to work at an Army Base. <PERSON> went to Day Care, and now she can be with her family. These are the strengths and weaknesses that my cousin and her family faces, and how it has effected them. |
93cf881eed1a0254d3193a0d42f69f99c3326f1f31e2fbc21a4fbc2bfaad25c4 | ['3aabef6d3ed048cda7ad890ce052c9e9'] | Go to the Mayanmar Wikipedia page and not how there is absolutely no mention of any of this.
I am guessing they employ someone to remove anyone's updates regarding this genocide. Please Wikipedia, there must be some way you can put the facts on there so this tragedy can't be literally erased from history. | 07609af2bd629ea672386d72f8a7318de3d0e883910c82c5d131dda622feafec | ['3aabef6d3ed048cda7ad890ce052c9e9'] | As someone who knows doctors working in the hospitals in Mexico City I can tell you that they are told they can only put cause of death as COVID on a limited number of death certificates each day in order to keep the numbers down.
As the article rightly says, <PERSON> promotes quack theories himself and it is no coincidence that the countries with the highest deaths are the ones whose leaders are more interested in the economy than the people.
It is a sad fact that the main victims are the poor and the elderly, the two groups who are the biggest drain on each economy, so there is little economic benefit in saving them. How different the approach would be if it mainly affected the rich or powerful. |
dd88011e4f1b28f78069d47e878d2b7f6719bfb2b336a5a64a5554c506620c5f | ['3b767dd293e0465db424c30ffdcfe520'] | Some things become very clear in times of chaos. I think we can all see just how little the government does or even can do to help the people it claims to protect. Like it or not, we are on our own now and forever. Grim, yes. But, true. Left, right, blue, red, up, down it is all the same - children put in charge who only know how to complain and point fingers. Sadly nothing would be different if <PERSON> were in office. If anything, Corona has shown the incompetence of the office of the president and how little power it really has over our every day lives. These politicians are pathetic wastes of space that are only used as a corporate arm to insert favorable legislation into "law". the public does not matter, this is clear. | 72593bbfe2282e25bdff69273d0b21689fffce16544e70a9341be9d8b5d76ba1 | ['3b767dd293e0465db424c30ffdcfe520'] | The recommendation provided here is essentially to do what the republicans did - vote based on party lines.
"Republicans who have chosen party and despot over country and law must be made to pay at the ballot box in November." In other words, everyone rally around the Dems regardless of the candidates, because the republicans must pay.
This is just the opposite of what people should be doing when voting. This recommendation is nothing but more partisan voting and will do nothing but divide the country even more.
Not a favorable NYT comment, I'm sure, but one that should be said. This whole us vs. them and vice versa needs to stop. |
72951e11d8c9e9fe61700d0365ea832f5ba79c8adfc1c63ff20334bfc9904cdc | ['3ba76d5c4869484fb7edc15562891210'] | If he wins, it won't be because of divine intercession, it'll be because of voter suppression and cheating on mega-steroids. All the conmen and flatterers around him are intent on maintaining their place at the trough, and they have their hands on so many levers of power. Watch for the theft of ballots already in, the systematic jamming of voter help lines, you name it; Republicans have a long and varied repertoire of such cheating. They'll try to keep him--and themselves--in power even it if takes taxidermy. | 5cb3bac19a1f90f38ab4978f32ebce89ca443e54341dbcb9e3517ba0c2b1f6b7 | ['3ba76d5c4869484fb7edc15562891210'] | Thank you for detailing the appalling trajectory of voter suppression. There are numerous groups now working to protect the vote: groups that vet voting machines, that help poor people pay for the new photo IDs required in some places, that fight against gerrymandering and dark money, that help purged voters re-register, that help people physically get to the polls, that study computer cyber-hacking. Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something, so let's clear some time in our schedules and some room in our budgets. Concerted action is the antidote to despair. |
bb0d0a3e013e92c55a8fd669c39895c06bf008767f6b036f7bf211d0139e09fa | ['3bd36dccc110401ca656ace21f2aa118'] | I don't understand why education is not being treated as essential and teachers as essential workers. The healthcare industry, emergency services and grocery store workers among others are and teachers and school staff should be treated no different. It seems clear that home school or virtual learning doesn't work for most kids, or isn't even developmentally appropriate for young children. We are completely ignoring the other side of risks of lack school - particularly for low income families and children who rely on so many services from school for their safety and well-being. I can't understand why people aren't more outraged about this, especially if you don't have the resources to continue to work full-time and home school your children. | a5575ecfc7021e3c947123d964d31dec6fe0866b2193ddb2917bb368f80dd527 | ['3bd36dccc110401ca656ace21f2aa118'] | <PERSON> and @smk do you honestly think the PPE for supermarket cashiers, delivery workers, and/or many of the other “essential” services was that good? Was the army force coming in to push those workers to do their job? They are working face to face with adults, often 1000s in a single day. Regardless, the solution provided seems to be completely clueless to both the teachers and the families with a few days on and a few days off... zero consistency makes planning for all parties more challenging. |
b920ca4c10464301535be6381eea58ad0cb37286225381481eb8bc42f9cf70dd | ['3bf417c93425417d814b8f9724fe0347'] | Ok, calm down folks! Some of us behave as though we least expected things to be as bad as they are, but our representatives (in both Democratic and Republican administrations) have refused to take responsibility for the one-third of cumulative anthropogenic greenhouse gases that the US emitted during the past century and a half. That is the sordid history of climate diplomacy even while tens of millions of people living on small islands, in the delta regions of various continents, along precarious hillsides in developing countries, and the Sahel have faced untold climate-related disasters for the better part of the past two decades.
At least the next generation can remember one thing: None of us have been innocent bystanders in any of this. | c4c10658e8ce08a659eb1b1bf0d51376c236e3022c41d5c708d51e68f5e8abce | ['3bf417c93425417d814b8f9724fe0347'] | The robbery comes in the form of life-sucking fees and tuition, not in the loss of the 'charmed life.' Students are working full time and going to community colleges or saving up for years before applying to grad school because they don't have inheritances that the privileged few enjoy.
What if the cachet associated with an Ivy League education were to disappear one day and Wiki universities and free MOOCs provide the same opportunities for learning? Is that something academics (not administrators) be willing to have a frank conversation about? |
24e8bdee4083014c1b8d63ddaff971ae0944c6dd03f14f1bcb598d40ac832e79 | ['3c2af7c6608849198f04e8cf317aa35b'] | Much needed perspective with the clincher:
"And it’s important they do this, not just to advance historical truth-telling, but to secure and broaden an audience for art."
Broadening the audience -- done the right way -- can make institutions more sustainable.
Arguably one of the biggest art world successes in the present has been <PERSON>. She's somehow traversed a plane that straddles Instagram-mania effortlessly (and possibly without any intention to do so). Whether broadening the artists that are sanctioned by the powers-that-be dilutes the quality is debatable.
Time will be the ultimate arbiter of artistic merit. In the meanwhile, art institutions can reap the benefits by co-opting the current waves in the zeitgeist. | c9f644d0cc215669c0aacf31d3bc4f096b617a6851348a8653fc99c5c1007bbe | ['3c2af7c6608849198f04e8cf317aa35b'] | This had an emotional depth and texture that made it enjoyable (and incredibly sad) to read. Maybe there are clues to be found in wisdom passed through the ages.
In our country’s founding document — the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ suggests a forward-thinking disposition. For example, imagining a time when we’ve solved climate change, wondering how we pulled it off.
<PERSON> also declared the centrality of ‘courage and a heart devoted to the good of mankind’ to felicity — or intense happiness.
Maybe one central paradox is that helping others is the most self-serving thing we can do for our own respective ‘intense happiness.’ |
aeb4a0e7fc104dd63c3ef05093fa1d15ee3383894af32de545422926bcdddf4f | ['3c80ac57753a4b96989f63f6f2b42b4b'] | <PERSON> If Mr. <PERSON> understood business we would not be in this situation. There are two problems. Opening up the economy. That is the easy one. The other is fear! The public is scared. Scared people do not spend money. Not sure how you can fix that problem now. Fear is spreading faster then SARS-Cov-2. | cf6bb00af6f2e91241a039d11e68bd2896aff1d79a76faf5c84f10d1e8e34794 | ['3c80ac57753a4b96989f63f6f2b42b4b'] | @Baron95 If you carefully look at the data that is being collected "avoiding widespread infection" is looking less and less likely. You may want to incorporate that into your stock market calculations. Much of this comes down to who you believe. Do you believe in the medical community or the anti science politicos? |
10f2b8abfbd5124dc9b2a2c0d81e43ae10028585f32b4088ee3c4b0ed3b8e31b | ['3ceaa7ec88e14a8888516f3aea980a5f'] | What does it mean that the iconic <PERSON> parody is the Anger Translator by <PERSON> and <PERSON> and the iconic <PERSON> parody is <PERSON>?
<PERSON> was so authentically cerebral and calm, that the joke that another person was necessary to convey his thoughts in a more emotional and down-to-earth manner.
<PERSON>, on the other hand, can rarely muster even a complete sentence. <PERSON>'s presentation makes clear that there is nothing behind the word dump but his hopeless yearning to appear intelligent and fearless and admirable. | 63e93d036f5542ee47a4516c343d71e86e265d97d702c388cb689d6eb0842da7 | ['3ceaa7ec88e14a8888516f3aea980a5f'] | <PERSON> this is a good question but I think it’s plausible because he was “on the front lines”— probably infected early and didn’t get effective treatment because the government was in denial.
Also, by the way,I have read that children are at less risk from this virus. |
688d4525d142324130916de4665442b10e01de65ce8d53171b0ecdfe51903427 | ['3d10ad73cd834fa28eab61bd10ac3c8b'] | Sadly, there is a group of people that <PERSON> is playing to in this country intent on the continued white-washing of our history as taught in schools. I'm reminded of the saying "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it" except in this case it's "Those who rewrite history are doomed to repeat past mistakes". | bcacf854ad5d59267e42bee7d2a1d1c6c9430d0f57ee67158956a9433a1b041d | ['3d10ad73cd834fa28eab61bd10ac3c8b'] | I think we should start by having our federal gov. raise taxes with higher rates applied to higher incomes/wealth and using that money to properly fund essential gov. agencies like the IRS, CDC, etc... so they can properly function. All this talk about cutting taxes is about me, me, me. |
1c93729338a69762fdebdb83fe78e867d117ac5d74ca0067a6840bfa68a448db | ['3d58322ad2c0489b8770f2ac35f2383b'] | I feel that I am not an adult yet. I think this because if I am still liveing under the roof of my parents and I don't have a job yet. I think that I will have reached adulthood when I have a job and either in college or if I have a steady job and home. I do believe that adulthood has to do with ages and responsibilities because when you get into your early 20’s you are supposed to either be in school or have a job. I do think that legal rights like drinking and voting is to show that you can handle being an adult(not saying that you can go back to being a child). For example one of your legal rights when you are an adult, is that you can drink.. This means that you are supposed to know how much to drink and when enough is enough. | 50e84d237310d63ddd231d2c61a649c5f0630caac2ae58823277e72efd60fe90 | ['3d58322ad2c0489b8770f2ac35f2383b'] | I think that I complain about a few times every week. But my parents have implemented to me to not complain because there are people out there who have it worse than me. I think that complain a good amount, but not too much. I think this because my life is doing pretty well right now so I find there is no need to really complain. If and when I do complain it is usually about how in feeling physically and emotionally. For example, after dance practice I am usually tired and sore. So I will complain because my body hurts. |
f4525d1f7e8b14d0fabff2cb161e1521c601031ba49bd94e263c1a8c0fb7ddcc | ['3d7d412355c6446b9271bbea69eb079d'] | I lived in this neighborhood in the 90's and it was a dump, but it was active-- there was a bustle of activity. I can imagine that now that much of the bustle is gone it might not have the foot traffic it had back in the day. The homeless and junkies are going to gravitate to these marginalized places. It's indeed a crisis of not only the last few decades but of several decades of lack of health care for mental as well as physical well-being. | ce41b3027baca38cda5894a3cc4b2579945df362a08175167fa964d1967f5eb7 | ['3d7d412355c6446b9271bbea69eb079d'] | To the <PERSON>: I wish I lived in Brooklyn so that I could order from <PERSON>. After this mess is over-- the next time I'm in NYC-- I'll make a pilgrimage to your restaurant.
To your Employees: Stay strong! The world is full of fools and aggressors, like the cops who sideline you-- but take solace in the fact that people like the <PERSON> exist, and all over the world people are rooting for you, praying for you, knowing that your generation will help make the change this country needs.
To <PERSON>: Great story, thank you for noticing! |
3e6a8a9d122b5ef665220d22e1072539e79040fc55564d6474ea6835b50f1531 | ['3df59cdc1474437f91133f885520cf44'] | <PERSON>
Dr. <PERSON> has had so much more experience than you in seeing all type of patients, young and old, gravely ill, succumbing and recovering, that one should listen to his opinion more carefully. A ventilator is not a magic potion, it is in a way a savage mechanical device. While one could put an octogenarian on a ventilator, it is very challenging to bring them out of it successfully, with much less success (in general) than a young/er person. | 1eb65504355e0f32d26f6394e2366ef3bb59c4d81dd64a008085fa3ef6c66945 | ['3df59cdc1474437f91133f885520cf44'] | Looks as the majority of commentators are really concerned about how their guy Mr. <PERSON> will appear to general populace debating President <PERSON>. Overwhelming "nay" for the debates, progressives? Good!
No, it is not about "nothing to see here folks". If you are so concerned about the debates, you already know your guy is weak and meek, has nothing to show, and will appear at best senile and plastic in an open space, actually talking. You already know that Mr. <PERSON> will chew him up and spit him out in minutes.
I agree with you, he is better off staying in his basement: a basement type of presidential candidate. |
2af06049eada41c05a913698e641fe88d21dc1b9ff03871e64f1fe2b28cb5138 | ['3e5179d9e4fa479eaf41cafbb8763712'] | @J <PERSON> supporter here who voted for <PERSON> in 2016...like every other <PERSON> supporter I know. You might believe what you say, but <PERSON> would not have been able to get the votes she did, if <PERSON> supporters hadn't voted for her. Why come on here and make up a falsehood? People still blaming <PERSON> for <PERSON>'s loss are both:
1.)Participating in an ugly silencing of the peoples who do not feel seen, heard, or affinity with Corporatist Democrats as it has marched to the right...i.e. POC and Working Class folks
2). Doing the dirty work of the Republicans by helping drive a wedge between two Progressive candidates. This will suppress voter turnout by alienating <PERSON> supporters in the presidential election. Gee....thanks
What many Clintonistas, Centrist Democrats, and Establishment Democrats don't get, is how entitled they come off to the Progressive end of the party, by demanding acquiesance to the party platform without getting representation in exchange. Why not turn your venom on the corporate lobbyist, and the democrat politicians who've sold their souls? If you want the supporters and votes, then earn them.
Accusations of ideological rigidity fall flat when the ones levelling them can't muster basic saliency in discussing the issues relevant now to Millenials and others on the fringes of the party. | bed8a3b9c1c9ed60b559eb9e1951a07c417fc7429328e31759441a662a029ca8 | ['3e5179d9e4fa479eaf41cafbb8763712'] | Painful to read this piece, as it betrays more than anything, how deeply out of touch so many Dem pundits are. <PERSON>'s coalition is the actual face of the emerging modern Dem party....it's just that the old party doesn't actually sincerely want to represent those it expects votes from. Those people want actual representation, and hence are flocking to the one candidate who is actually including them directly in the campaign, platform, and coalition building...instead of just making them a talking point in a stump speech....go figure. |
69241b64b72a8d68dab2e202ad1a4d825bba460a4491f3f6cef24d64ca3005df | ['3e635ae3d2a641539b4e092ea70ac76d'] | I unfortunately have an acoustic neuroma-a benign tumor of the acoustic (hearing) nerve so am unable to listen to audiobooks or even music now. Any sound causes incredible pain. With the pandemic, elective surgery is a ways off.
I must wear noise-canceling earphones.
I’m writing this to tell you all to use your 14 to 20 senses as much as possible.
Ahhh---you thought you only had five senses--right? We humans have many more!
<a href="https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/think-you-have-only-5-senses-its-actually-a-lot-more-than-that" target="_blank">https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/think-you-have-only-5-senses-its-actually-a-lot-more-than-that</a>
I actually watched the <PERSON> concert with the sound off. Spectacular! I knew all the words--just lip synched with <PERSON>. Still have memory. | a1fd8afe2c266b21bb99198251aca9e60d5b5223a9b3d3075f35ae060f935105 | ['3e635ae3d2a641539b4e092ea70ac76d'] | All of what you’re proposing is highly illegal. How can a person sue for medical expenses when it’s nearly impossible to figure out how one was exposed? What are these people doing to become infected?
Stay home!
We now have the WORST control of COVID-19 of all countries! The SARS-CoV-2 virus will never go away...like polio, measles, whooping cough, and tetanus. We will have to keep getting vaccines and boosters.
Dr <PERSON> is right along with most infection disease MDs. COVID-19 will ALWAYS be with us!
We had smallpox for 3,000 years until we got a vaccine and everyone got the vaccine! |
1a1bceb42ec7fdbbac533c322778fd9316693126781254ce14c0abbdf06e0266 | ['3ef4bce761a64c3783f9bb6f0539eaa2'] | @rtj And if he can't build a primary campaign apparatus (apparently he has had nothing going on in most of the Super Tuesday states) how can anyone expect him to build a winning general election campaign, or if, despite that, flukes a win there, expect him to be able to build an administration to take on the immense challenges it will face. | f1fe24c486e63c5dd1b28995a688bcbde2005f418971848827362b85207109af | ['3ef4bce761a64c3783f9bb6f0539eaa2'] | Beating <PERSON> on November 3 is an essential for the Democratic nominee. But it is only 1% of what is necessary.
The President inaugurated in January will need to undo all the damage <PERSON> has done to the US government, catch back up the 4 years laid to waste by his administration and build a new post Covid-19 economy laser focused on minimizing and mitigating the effects of the next tsunami bearing down on us brought on by Global warming.
Whatever you think of <PERSON>, he is not the man for that job - 1% out 100% won't cut it.
The game has completely changed since the mid-March primaries.
Somehow the Dems need to find the new <PERSON> - none of prior 2020 candidates need apply. New all-state national postal vote primary? |
c37721a4607ea7c9bfcb2942d983224269a256832540b6a136c0f6c746da3178 | ['3f0c902749d64a7fb6798f115b552cea'] | Having read Mr. <PERSON>'s book recently, I can't help but notice an important parallel that he left out of this article. In the 1918 flu, President <PERSON> completely ignored and minimized the pandemic, leading to millions more deaths than would have occurred if he'd acted. In the Afterword of Mr. <PERSON>'s book, he asserts that what is most needed from leaders in a pandemic is honesty that builds trust. He argues that people are most afraid when they can't trust their leaders to be straight with them.
So here we are with another President essentially ignoring and minimizing a pandemic, and also totally untrustworthy with his statements and policies. And therefore we have a fractured, divided country. Apparently this is yet another instance of America not learning from its own history. Very sad. And terrifying. | 55bb7b7c945678c6ecb60cbd83458413358dd95c9e7604e5ddb901e914456cb6 | ['3f0c902749d64a7fb6798f115b552cea'] | I lost my mother to covid-19. We had a funeral at the cemetery, attended by just eight people: her three sons, their wives, a Rabbi, and a friend holding a phone to stream the sad event to family and friends spread around the country. Those at the cemetery wore masks and kept physically distant from one another. There was no hugging, no crying on one another's shoulders. It was heartbreaking and quite painful. But we did it that way to protect ourselves, each other, and the rest of our community who would have to care for us if we got sick.
Who are these selfish people who think that they are somehow special and get to thumb their noses at sensible rules meant to protect them. Who are these selfish people who, when they get sick, will still depend on the wider, secular, society to care for them, putting those heroic doctors and nurses and other hospital workers at risk? As a Jew myself, I ask, what part of Jewish law, written or oral, permits risking life and health in this way? |
bc81d71aa4fdc56d6224d7ff2b155d17f527f8aad517578a75857f085193c692 | ['3f19c68749e9441986b839c6a92120e4'] | True, if you only go to 1 movie, but these movies are available across 5-6 streaming platforms. It adds up. Adding and then canceling is a pain. Plus not all streaming services are on Roku or smart tv. That’s not the fault of the reviewers but something to keep in mind. | af448919d1538692eb0766ba0fff4d5071fa9372cc631694b8fe241a32f706d4 | ['3f19c68749e9441986b839c6a92120e4'] | @Froxgirl They can use the library at school or the community. Creativity, curiosity, wonder aren’t apportioned by how much money you make. I grew up poor in NY State. My parents were divorced and my mom worked at a time when there were very few jobs for women. We struggled but got by. Yet we were always learning. Today we have degrees in professional fields - mom even earned a Masters Degree in Education. |
2580bf75b26c5a645a425d03b1fa13adc566f52cb07abe31034655dffdce0b54 | ['3f1b1d7218f240b7a6c21798ab3236fb'] | <PERSON>, in spite if what she claims, lost because of the low turnout if black people. Same may happens to <PERSON> if he will not come out with a strong (not necessarily black) vice president that can campaign for him. The less he move the better it is for him. Very sad story. | 2765d750b58ee589b1e58841d626a6226ac5a2cdf4d7095fd407db063d17c931 | ['3f1b1d7218f240b7a6c21798ab3236fb'] | one of the reasons why democrats still fear a victory of <PERSON> is for the weakness of <PERSON>, a man at the and of his time. Putting him in that position by the establishment has been bad in every sense. Let us just hope the mistake made will not destroy the democracy and vote for him, even if it may be necessary to close the nose. |
7f87bc038a314770b3687306ac0e0d37f37805baca59bd5b4ce8b600b90094bf | ['3f7039348b084914a33d786ba6064425'] | <PERSON> You're right. Those living in more liberal states will continue to enjoy the benefits of liberal values, while those in more conservative states will have their backs pressed against the wall. Unfortunately, the only other way I see out of the situation would be for a Democratic Congress to create more seats on the Supreme Court and then fill them with relatively young progressives. This creates a bad precedent, for what would prevent a future Republicon Congress from doing the same? | da87d504df6e105b3fb87992b9cd36676ff6378b8e7674d2f2f2b8c2a91d67ae | ['3f7039348b084914a33d786ba6064425'] | Even small non-profits can mess it up. Five years ago I was let go from my job as an admin assistant in the church that I was also a member of at the time. Did the pastor and president of the congregation sit me down and say to me, "<PERSON>, the church is between a rock and a hard place financially and we can no longer afford to keep the office open. We'll have to let you go."? No, the pastor told me in an email that I no longer had a job there. And to add insult to injury, it wasn't even the main subject of the email. It was done in an "Oh, by the way ..." fashion.
On the other hand, when I was laid off from my last job in corporate America, where I was a software engineer, my former employer treated me with respect and dignity. They sat me down and told me to my face and gave me a nice severance package.
So, at least in these two instances, a supposedly faceless corporation treated me far better than a church of God. |
b4bab482c90f60232aed0cc9831d322db2b7cb7258d90443cc5d2f0220ab7d8c | ['3f858a62488a48aeb5b2cdf1d4e43aa3'] | The same people who now refuse to acknowledge (admit) defeat, are the same ones who, only 4 years earlier, when there was a much more clearer question over who won.
Blue did they whine after the election between <PERSON> and the republican.
They never raise a fuss.
They're so immature, and they're supposed to be 'our' representatives.
Very frightening. | a29387acea96f92fead42bfb4ec620ec23d20f4166247e1e18cad5a50f8a68a9 | ['3f858a62488a48aeb5b2cdf1d4e43aa3'] | The simple answer; DON'T use g--gl- (I won't even say it); instead, use DuckDuckGo, which DOESN'T track users, not any off the other nefarious things.
But, people are like sheep - they rarely change habits, even when they're forced to (for long did it take for New Yorkers to get 'in the habit' of wearing seat belts, even sheet it became law?) |
d740ffdbc8ea687eef7c90f3800645ebc1070c8d768e9cccc2133d34218d3c47 | ['3fb13ef9acb14d2a87751352f0931fb3'] | Thank you Mr. <PERSON>.
Just think 100,000+ of our friends, neighbors, co-workers, fellow worshippers, and citizens are gone from this earth.... I am sad and grieving for them and their families. I am ashamed that I am angry too....this just didn't have to happen....<PERSON> our president remains silent. My husband tells me he said something on Twitter, but I do not participate in social media and so his words of "comfort" do not reach my ears.
I hear he is going to give a statement tomorrow on China and Hong Kong... but still there is silence about the virus' toll on his own people....How do we account for this? How do we mourn as a nation when our leader cannot even acknowledge our collective grief and sorrow? What does this say about America? | 19b2d1b5ee3e2f2c20c345f9651990a9cc900ae29231f049b577ceaa7633fcc2 | ['3fb13ef9acb14d2a87751352f0931fb3'] | @Bohemian <PERSON>She threatened the ruling political class, the wealthy, and the commercialized media in this country. They knew she was smart and would threaten their way of life in this country.... so they ignored her or trivialized her.... constantly harping on her electability, so of course, people started to believe what they heard. I am beyond sad.... |
272e310213c231096f042bbb4517bc19d55fb543481c87abee5142f4bd638a27 | ['3fd8897aac9a4d9483c7f6f456ec655d'] | Hi-
I know that in the past you have written articles about Nurse Family Partnership and mentioned it in your book. What you may not know is that my organization Friends of New York City Nurse Family Partnership, unique in the country, is a 501 3 c that supports the clients and program in NYC for all the things that they need but do not get under the model. Specifically helping clients pay for tuition expenses (vocational, community college and college), laptops, printers and more. And $110,000 given out during COVID for emergency funds. Would love to send you videos and tell you more. Could you let me know best way to reach you. Have tried in past without success. <PERSON> of NYC NFP www.friendsofnycnfp.org | 98917d7c15da16aa9bb3f652db003597a84af32876c09ac97fea181ca862cbae | ['3fd8897aac9a4d9483c7f6f456ec655d'] | I have so admired the Never Trump Republicans as well as so many journalists and others who have rejected not only <PERSON> but the racism that has run through the Republican Party for far too long. I am a liberal but not far left Democrat and I am curious about what distinguishes those Republicans I respect from my views. I agreed with everything EM said. I would like to know the differences. Is it more emphasis on community? But in order to rebuild social connections, families must earn a living wage or get government support to do so. Also, re deficits. I understand that there is important new thinking on how much of a problem they are when one has its own central bank, unlike, say, a Greece. Too big a topic for this comment, I know |
b33dcffc78e8cc0b545eca738bf56c5f14c28613d0e6f52952c7b59cc2dfda51 | ['3ff17cce10174948baa8c556348e452d'] | Listening is something that I feel that I am good at. Even though sometimes I find myself thinking about how to respond to the things they are saying. Not only do I enjoy listening to my friends problems or even their highs but I also enjoy responding and talking about them, maybe trying to give some advice. I think it is natural to feel the urge to respond or relate to something they say right away but to be a good listener you need to focus on them and not yourself. If you are truly trying to help or get something out of the conversation you need to be quiet and pay attention to their every word to understand the full picture.
Depending on the scene it can be very difficult to give someone your full undivided attention which is what most of us want. Maybe you’re in a restaurant with the loudest music you have ever heard which causes you to not be able to hear the person across the table from you. Maybe your mom is texting and calling you non stop about something you have no control over, which takes your attention away from the things that person is trying to tell you. | 9dfff781c2974ceb43d52c906da19b4a32afe9c5efb6003771660816a29afc2d | ['3ff17cce10174948baa8c556348e452d'] | <PERSON> I agree with you one hundred percent! Getting into a class on the first day of school and being handed a textbook or a handbook on/for the class that has been passed down from student to student over the past 20 years is the worst feeling ever. When teachers get hired at a school they are signing up to teach, not to be able to hand a student a book and say "here's all the information you need, I am just here for moral support", which is the way t goes most of the time. When a teacher actually does their job it makes the learning experience a whole lot better by one, being more educational because students are actually learning things, and two, by being a whole lot more entertaining. The more I enjoy myself in class while studying a topic and the more engaged I am, the better I learn and will most likely take more out of the lesson. |
7f3ed2593da59b38cc4d297b51638c48ceb78e1b19eafee5c15b6672c00be4cf | ['409130e0d20e49edbf57e8bb6dc946b5'] | While Ms. <PERSON> and her wealthy husband do not have discretion over the management of their sizable investment accounts, there is NOTHING preventing them from calling their advisor(s) and discussing what they all think about their portfolio holdings, and whether Ms. <PERSON> would prefer that the advisor sell or buy more of existing holdings, or buy other securities. I am sure the advisor wants to keep his/her clients happy, and if they direct him/her to take some action, he or she will.
Just because she claims to be a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), doesn't mean that one's self interest creeps into their investment decisions.
Georgia, you can do better! | 62dd2fca7b67388499739b569e903aab50c4611f4658a286a5484cde34565e9b | ['409130e0d20e49edbf57e8bb6dc946b5'] | It is important to remember that many of the manufacturing business <PERSON> jettisoned in the early 1980s had been "milked" over the prior decade. Little or no investment in capital equipment for MANY years, so by the 1980s they were no longer productive and had to be done away with. Their demise was a foregone conclusion. It was great for shareholders (for about 20 years), but not for loyal GE employees in "out of the way" locations across the US. That was the start of the hollowing out of our manufacturing base.
In 1980 i was a management trainee in GE's Louisville, Kentucky appliance business. At that time Ford was advertising "quality is job 1." I always said that had GE used this "jingle" they should have replaced "1" with "100." It was not all the hourly employees' fault, but they, along with a lot of managers, paid the price. |
8d5f8c17971b2ecfaa0145cf376169c511d6afda7f8c9e22c3a382e8fbf0f30a | ['40cd13eae60c4b16933a0f2e999a32e0'] | @RC You are missing my point - The "virus trains" sent millions of people to "familiar environments". How many more would've died otherwise!
Bigger mistake was the delay and slowness in India's response. And I think, delay and slowness in response is the one common mistake visible everywhere including inside the WHO and in most countries other than Taiwan. | 1a8323373132bbed51efac6fa021d74633f519148cfbc66737a42d7156c6fd5d | ['40cd13eae60c4b16933a0f2e999a32e0'] | Chinese people from outside Wuhan tried escaping the lockdowns too. You mean to say the Chinese government was right to force them to stay inside the infected city?
Virus dispersion in the US can be partly attributed to Americans returning from Europe after travel bans were announced. They formed minimally distanced lines/crowds inside airports. (Those images are missing from NYTimes' 2020 recap.)
Poeple in 20s have returned to parents' houses all the world over. What planning could've prevented people from going back to more familiar environments? Do you want to start blaming them too? |
6bd4e56a909827f254ca06e0febb348bf0b151dcaf3a0d7b2e70ca341b5b2511 | ['411faf5b054048c989532388302e89e6'] | I noticed that most people spent 1,000$ to 3,000$ on an engagement ring. As pricing increased for rings, less people bought them. One interesting thing I noticed is that there are spikes in the graph farther down. For rings that cost around 12,000$ and 15,000$, more people bought them, going against the declining trend in the graph. More people seemed to buy the 15,000$ rings instead of the 10,000$ rings. | 74c3e1e28ce4881edd483721a53001b4c8c1521b23b566f4f49e60ef9fb344db | ['411faf5b054048c989532388302e89e6'] | Headline: Scattered Information
I think this graph shows people's lack of care to read privacy policies. Not many people will sit through 10-20+ minutes of a college reading level policy, they just don’t see the point in that. Maybe companies make their policies challenging to read on purpose, to make people mindlessly agree to something. It’s a lot easier to get away with selling people’s information when they agree to let you do it. |
2e3403a42701e62ab313c30075893b23c1177738b88686066d601e0ff6225f4a | ['413572c7fe0f42988118cc1d25bfc34c'] | Big companies have entrepreneurs like Mr. <PERSON> and his family raise the capital to build and then operate franchise units, with the company taking fees but laying off the ownership risk.
Then in stressful times we bail out the big companies and leave the entrepreneurs to struggle. And we wonder why tax breaks and incentives for the big and well-connected do so little to move the economy forward? | 80f9bcbfa21329b750b1d1b605ebb173cae768dbe618de0e96e72ebce9a12a04 | ['413572c7fe0f42988118cc1d25bfc34c'] | Braveheart the movie was released over 25 years ago.
Copyright protection is intended to allow the creators an exclusive period of time to profit from their product; in exchange for the government enforcing that protection, after some period of time the work is to enter the common domain.
A quarter century is plenty of time for <PERSON> and all of the creators of that movie to have made their money from the protections we extended to their creation. |
41e1f1696300dd5422860ac7fd1170e49e594b2d240254c26df2e281e6cd1bf6 | ['420d6fc505804b5bb3d22314bc33b818'] | I'd like to see more analysis regarding the locations in the US( and the world) that will become more attractive than they are now due to climate change. For example, the article mentions Detroit, Buffalo and Rochester along with the Dakotas. Mankind has been migrating because of climate from the beginning; why do you think the South and California was populated in the first place? There are opportunities out there for folks to move to higher and safer ground. Rochester for example, aside from cold and snowy winters, has some of the most benign climate in the world. So, come back you snow bunnies; the real estate is really cheap, the traffic is non-existent and the quality of life is high. | 206b09dea2d0b6c742833c792cd52791b4e19603d775c1e46d343ba33d511243 | ['420d6fc505804b5bb3d22314bc33b818'] | <PERSON> I believe you're mistaken on several points. The timeline( as laid out in the WSJ by <PERSON>) was as follows:
4/14: <PERSON> joins Burisma board;
8/14: Ukraine prosecutor starts investigation of Burisma;
12/15: <PERSON> issues threat to the Ukraine president that $ 1 Billion of aid will be withheld unless said prosecutor is fired. The Ukraine president complies;
Mid '16: Investigation of Burisma is terminated by the new prosecutor.
As a taxpayer who would not want my money flowing into the <PERSON> family coffers, I would say that the timeline is coincidental enough to at least deserve further examination which is what <PERSON> was requesting. Furthermore, VP <PERSON> wasn't "sent to the Ukraine" to deliver the message. Instead, he bragged to the Council of Foreign Relations that the threat was delivered over the phone( watch the video; it's on YouTube). Besides, did congress condition the flow of aid on Ukraine firing the prosecutor? If not, I would say that in substance <PERSON> engaged in the same behavior that <PERSON> is accused of(i.e., subverting the will of congress). |
6e6eba0927481b29b56b88b8591a25ecc0f094424a07e61bb6e90ae818774a71 | ['423b08711c814ed6ada2ebcd30b48640'] | Puhleeze. ..
Everytime the GOP voter lost, they questioned democracy.
<PERSON> was just the beginning of their shock that they lost to "the likes of ...."
<PERSON> and birtherism was the same, but racialized pushback to losing.
They've been pounding into the political narrative the idea of who is a real American, e.g. legitimate voter, and mass voter fraud for decades and decades.
<PERSON> isn't a Svengali. He's a parabolic dish laser focusing the GOP voter's inner self. He tells them what they want to hear, and already believe.
They legitimize their authoritarian fascist ways by labeling those they disagree with
or cannot identify with as Unamerican and enemies actively seeking to harm them personally.
Only the media seems to miss this. I suspect it's because the reporter's coverings the elected GOP recognize the individual humanity of them. It's hard to grapple with the fact that good people do bad things. And most of us tell ourselves little stories to avoid confronting our darkness.
Welcome to the beginning of the end, if nothing changes. | d551aacafa3b269d2755f6cf83ce5234780d092b5bf20745a008cc5d9f9771b3 | ['423b08711c814ed6ada2ebcd30b48640'] | So let me get this straight. The GOP is demanding that we take away weeks of unemployment benefits (they end in California the day after Christmas) in order to give that money to those who have jobs and each of their kids? Most of CA is shutdown; we can't work. This is not about the ENHANCED unemployment benefits of the EXTRA monies ($300). All PUA (like for self employed sole proprietors) ends December 26th. All exhausted benefits of regular UI ends then too. So <PERSON> and company demanding stimulus for all gives <PERSON> the chance to use that money to lower shorten aid to the unemployed in a shutdown due to a pandemic. Nice. Talk about the Christmas Spirit! Cus that's totally what <PERSON> would do -- take away from the least these .... |
37c45c6d57fac0511555efcb578fefb45f67dc363dab7e6f9c9704afe2d7b606 | ['42b98c20fde244ee9ed272499de64a0b'] | I hope I can find the paper online somewhere and read it. I am skeptical when these reports are abbreviated for the public. I'd like to see the research question, the research design, and if the research design was appropriate to the question, as well as other factors. Learning how to read a medical paper these days is becoming essential as news becomes more and more "digested". | 49d56a506a07bebd0d781a218f3b38fcf9cea19096bc47478b73f32a22f3ef04 | ['42b98c20fde244ee9ed272499de64a0b'] | Calling these farces debates is, well, farcical. <PERSON> will bully, talk over, and claim some sort of Presidential privilege every time he can, and if he thought he could get away with it, he'd try that "stalking" thing he did with <PERSON>. I doubt <PERSON> will put up with that. |
8c25b4ba0bcf0488faf95b9904183dfa01f869b912ede3ace6fbd21085cd2eac | ['431e1c20bb9f49af8fdc3ecf36668ada'] | <PERSON>
You're certainly correct about islands without shared borders being significant - though with over 3 million Chinese and Asian students studying in Australia, and returning here in Jan. & Feb. the government had to move more quickly than many countries to avoid potential disaster.
" when I compare th the case/fatality ratio, the (free) health care system and resources".
Those factors also apply here and in N.Z. | f6b3de67c177f85557288be73663b8d0c27280d077eb344990e99fa7e74a7724 | ['431e1c20bb9f49af8fdc3ecf36668ada'] | @Norma America is unique only in spectacularly falling to stop covid, having the highest number of its own citizen's incarcerated, the death penalty and police who regularly shoot people. Oh, and the greatest wealth disparity on the western world.
You really haven't a clue have you? Other Western democracies currently regard yours with horror. |
f4ecd6c198be992b4e0b090e4a85f00994daea08edc6b62ac1442c54bdf9ef53 | ['432c909c253745eeaae1f4030463ff41'] | Wow, quite a few differ opinions here.
I do think using countries like New Zealand and Sweden as comparisons the the US is unfair.
Both Sweden and New Zealand are monolithic in populations. They are more compliant to laws than here. They have
Small relative populations and little diversity.
The US pppulation dwarfs both countries and our diversity
Does bring more divergent cultures and viewpoints.
What works for some may not work for all and to me that is clear in this case. | 3d2375eb1e1ccb2ecc051241e888340f2c754e5cef6d1c0d3412b66d09ba1dd4 | ['432c909c253745eeaae1f4030463ff41'] | I lived in Winhall, Vt. From 1990-2002
All I can say is the rosy writings of some do not tell the whole picture. Sadly many Vermonter, locals, do not care for the “flat landers”. Some of the business people are more tolerant of the flatlanders as they overcharge them for thier services.
Small town politics rule the day, it’s who you know.
Schools are small and mediocre, if you need a quart of milk, you may have to drive 5 miles or more in the ice and snow to the only overpriced store in town, the Winhall market where you will pay Manhattan prices. I remember many a winter day of 10, 15, even 30 below zero. Try getting a heat repair man in winter.
On the good side, you will not need an air conditioner.
Good luck folks, many of you will be gone after two winters. |
661f3c948e0546aaf9a747bed4fb6985ed817f1e40df0bc71c8cd5786f2c442d | ['435bf1bfdb264b25bf95c62e2c9821fb'] | @JWyly But what happens when said technology is designed and deployed by <PERSON>'s top staffers..and what if this delay creates the impression that <PERSON> did well in Iowa..even though he's likely to finish 5th..just ahead of <PERSON>?
The <PERSON>'s don't lose without cheating..and this is not beyond their desire to keep the Establishment Large and in Charge... | a533f9916b9841e8badce2e4212ba92c468a3c56d39b8bd6dce1bb4fdd447a0d | ['435bf1bfdb264b25bf95c62e2c9821fb'] | @She If you can't name your mayor, two city council members, your state senator and state rep, 2 school board members, and a county commissioner...do we really want you voting?
I don't think so.
If you have to take a test to drive a car, surely you should have to take a test to vote since the latter is crucial to our democracy whereas the former is but a mere luxury.
If you don't make people earn the right to vote..then it means nothing to us and less than little to those who can't even be bothered to obtain a photo id.
I guess those people don't buy Nyquil..for which you need a drivers license and/or photo id. |
e692dc868a6f4d0b9d8ecb3c1c4bba1019f214ad1c3fa595e9bbfb79cd3efdf8 | ['43632affd1bc4aafb55d2c0f1d603f87'] | I am waiting for your book, and look forward to the insights you and <PERSON> have to share about poverty in the US. I look at my own life, and see how I am no longer the middle class that I once was, but I am aware of how many more advantages I have than many others. Those self satisfied commentators who are patting themselves on the back about how hard they worked to get to where they are, and that anyone can do it if they just work hard enough,don't even see the realities that many people face because they have never experienced them. Most have the benefits of being raised in a family that, while maybe not rich, provided a secure roof over their heads, food on the table, a good education, access to resources that many don't have. Those resources are taken for granted. Sure you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have a nice pair of boots, but kind of hard to do without a pair at all. The worst of it is the "only me and mine" attitude that seems to prevail. No ability to look past their own front door and see how we all benefit when everyone is doing better - healthy, educated, with a place to live, a job, food on the table. My hope is that books like yours will open the reader's eyes and help them be more compassionate to the people in their communities who could use a hand making that next step up. Maybe it will be their hand outstretched to grasp it. Thanks! | 97264e0cd0047509295a254d7b32354149c109b25b88d75a2d87f1ddfd7dafc6 | ['43632affd1bc4aafb55d2c0f1d603f87'] | @C Maybe holding <PERSON> accountable for the fiasco of the pandemic in the US has nothing to do with the election for most people, and everything to do with the fact that you expect the leader of your country to work for the benefit of the people. <PERSON> has no interest in the well being of the people in this country unless they are showering him with adoration to feed is monstrous ego. As for your final comment, it says it all - you want to buy into <PERSON> hatred of democratic governors and legislators, especially if they are women. This isn't a blue state issue, it just came to the blue state first. Nor do you seem to understand that the cities in the blue states that were the first to experience the devastation of the corona19 virus were all big cities, not little towns in rural America. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that a very contagious virus is going to spread far faster when found in a dense population. Furthermore, these states that battled the initial onset of the virus, did so with little knowledge and zero help from the government or <PERSON>, who is still withholding about 9 million allocated by congress for testing. To you great patriots who say you love American, but support a conman and a political party that is trying to take over control of this country by any means possible, I am not sure what country you love, but I doubt it is this country which is supposed to have justice and freedom for all. |
51fb99e4e42c668d16b947453b0a1d3fad145d85db6bb02241b7c7e3efaca2bb | ['436e68f5cc1a4c51bddfa3f6cf3e47ae'] | All states need to come up with a viable mail-in ballot system before the November election arrives. That or make election day a weeklong event. Otherwise, come November 3rd, only the <PERSON> cultists will eagerly stand in line outside of crowded voting places as the flu and the coronavirus return following a summer break. | cef125cd609bb75738f22e1a3fa5bc5458eb71d50ebb5d98c0d5d14b9fdd9445 | ['436e68f5cc1a4c51bddfa3f6cf3e47ae'] | The mainstream media are being just as complicit and instrumental in <PERSON>'s successful reelection as they were in his original election four years ago. In 2016, perhaps believing they had to do so to maintain journalistic balance, they constantly equated every last one of <PERSON>'s many outrageous statements and deeds to <PERSON> use of a private email server. Now they slavishly air these live, prime time "briefings" under the pretext that they are news events, even though even <PERSON> considers them virtual campaign rallies.
If the media are worried that something mentioned at these de facto campaign events might be meaningful and important, the solution is simple. Just give us Dr. <PERSON>'s comments after each event concludes. |
42e8e192907c19f50d30d0a4f9c697c68895f0f62dd18c75e414ff539aebffa8 | ['43af98442b0d4aa4b5d05c0a714bb00f'] | Is this what it comes down to? "I voted for <PERSON> because he sent me a check."
<PERSON>'s entire administration was based mainly on stunts. Out of the daily ridiculous and often offensive statements and actions, came the one act of <PERSON> insisting that his name appear on the checks.
This can't be what political discourse has been reduced to in our country. | e40d7c16d63e0621e07f8d515674d8760733c3b9601491ed3f2fe8a3b2c90f05 | ['43af98442b0d4aa4b5d05c0a714bb00f'] | Your position disappoints us. We believe that conduct while in office is important. <PERSON> was using congressionally allocated funds to extort an ally at war, to give himself an unfair advantage in the 2020 election. I do not accept your rational that this is not an impeachable offense. It was done in secret because <PERSON> and his staff knew it was dishonest and impeachable.
Republicans can only condemn the process, while voting not to hear witnesses, or see more evidence. <PERSON> is know for running out the clock in the court system when he is facing charges, and this particular impeachment process removed that tactic. Surely you can find a better rational for acquittal, with such serious charges, than blaming the House strategy.
Knowing full well that congressional republicans would never accept this level of corrupt, dishonest behavior out of a democratic president, we reject your argument. Our only recourse now will be the election, and I expect another blue wave to hit the Senate and White House. Responsible government must be honest with itself and it's constituents. |
65c92a5158d9ba58b6eafe8287e01f11cd9c40c3948eaa4b757d810235ef5738 | ['4400b2bab86c47bbbfb7033b289d823e'] | I see three choices:
-- vote for <PERSON> and enjoy the expedited ruin of our once promising nation
-- vote for <PERSON> and there is hope that we the people can wrest control of our government back from the rich, powerful, elite in hopes that it will again truly represent and support us
-- vote for one of the other democrats and resign yourself to the somewhat slower road to ruin as the rich and powerful who control both parties (one side simply moreso than the other) extract what is left of this nations resources (human and otherwise) | 92ef73108d9c6a5a399704663f4fd3cadf2195c587e82dd51eeda93e7b5402b1 | ['4400b2bab86c47bbbfb7033b289d823e'] | @i8cake, All I would wish for <PERSON> is that he got a fair shake. We can disagree on this, but I think it's fairly clear he has not gotten a fair shake from the media. I think it's also fairly clear that he, as well as <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> have not gotten a fair shake from the DNC. This is a bit less obvious, but I think every bit as real.
Personally, I think <PERSON> is clearly the better candidate for the country and planet as a whole. If I were to vote exclusively out of my self-interest, <PERSON> would likely be better for me, but I can see where this country and planet are headed on a path that needs the sort of "radical" correction <PERSON> is espousing.
I do, however, find it a bit offensive that <PERSON>'s common sense is being labeled as radical. I think it's unfortunate that the process has lead us to having what I see as the first and fifth best candidates as the only remaining viable for the democratic nomination. I wish the people had more ability to make a clear and informed decision without their thinking being clouded by outside forces.
Truth be told, we only have ourselves to blame, but becoming objectively informed and thinking critically about such things in this age is tough. |
b995c1b3d252c6fa2efaed5f8da1f4e4fed858b338f1b984429ce2bf315e0cc7 | ['4461270689434502b1d311ce3083785a'] | <PERSON>, the Santa Fe Opera is world class (Bumped into - literally - a few years ago RBG at the opera), the art in Taos is world class, the Taos School of Music, which imports internationally known string quartets to teach during the summer (the "students" are all gradates of Juilliard, Curtis, Berklee, etc. and are professional musicians in top symphony orchestras) provides weekly concerts, and Taos Ski Vally was recently ranked 3rd in the United States.
Yada, yada.
Yes, I did time in North Jersey, NYC (Columbia), and my PhD is from Stony Brook, so I am not simply some rube born and raised in a wheat field. Life is good out here in the "boonies." | ad6c004e9934d489843a561b895ce0b58a67f802da23565c8d0517a936fa6611 | ['4461270689434502b1d311ce3083785a'] | Okay. We get it, and we got it some time ago. WE, NYT times readers and liberals and even thinking conservatives, don't trust the Republican party. So what? Over 70M Americans, THEM, apparently do. So how do we reach out to the rest of America? I am so tired of the brow beating and would really rather focus on solutions. On persuading the MAGA voters that health care is a good. That tax breaks for the rich don't help the average American, and so on. |
719fe748d9af10f659a94ef3daa97874d1912c41995a92a39cae80ff5daba308 | ['44801c7f5a68431f9846a48623137bbe'] | This what has become of the partly formerly known as the GOP; courting armed extremists, Qanon conspiracy theorists, corn pone tactical clad American brown shirts in a desperate bid to assert power over democratically elected leaders. The FBI just seems to be waking up to this domestic threat, however this level of extremist thinking has taken hold with GOP "thought leaders" nursing "white grievances". Unfortunately this is not going away anytime soon and the cynic in me thinks these groups are just getting started. | 77cdedf897089070728121fd5d501e11030eaa916da32d40e234a837ee5e5127 | ['44801c7f5a68431f9846a48623137bbe'] | The hubris of the group think in the <PERSON> White House is astounding. <PERSON> truly believes that Iran does not have a contingency plan to deal with a loss of a leader and this assassination will deter Iran's regional belligerence and aspirations. I imagine there are some in the Pentagon who are privately tearing their hair out over this action while publicly towing the party line.
We're expected to believe that our regional military losses over the last 15+ years is suddenly a 'crisis' and this was the only way deter Iran? As others have pointed out in the comments this impetuous decision has all the hallmarks of a 'Wag the Dog' ploy.
We are now sailing over the falls with this administration the bottom is fast approaching. |
6438a1af21de73d6a70888672375d4c4d487853f76b65ac74799f34171b32a86 | ['44868517f423454fbe8a0e427b80d9e1'] | Looking at this picture, I think the image portrays the two vastly different sides of American politics, using a book to illustrate the common saying that there are “two sides to every story”. The divide between Democrats and Republicans in today’s society has gotten to an extreme depth, and the outcome of this year’s election may only further deepen their differences. In almost every issue in today’s world, the two parties have their own views and perspectives, and their supporters can never compromise and unite as a common people. Beyond that, the picture also depicts the Democrats being portrayed as a woman, and the Republicans being portrayed as a man. This shows how woman and minorities tend to support the Democratic party, and how white men tend to support the current Republican party. With this symbolism being represented, it also shows how the liberal, progressive-seeking demographics are always at head-to-head with the more conservative, traditional demographics. With this year’s election, one can only hope that the U.S. can finally reach some sort of peaceful period after a hectic 2020, with the possibility that it can stretch for the next four years and beyond. | ddcb4d73fe7ba71123f202404092a51d6b6f4f5f1da32469e30392d4c75cf024 | ['44868517f423454fbe8a0e427b80d9e1'] | Ever since the coronavirus pandemic took full effect in early March of this year, life for everyone across the world has been completely different than in previous years. It was something I never expected. In January, when there were only a few cases in the U.S., my friends and I thought nothing about it. We thought it was strange, but we had no idea how much the world would transform after it. I think history books will portray this event through a wide variety of perspectives. There are so many viewpoints to coronavirus that span across all types of societal matters: such as businesses, hospitals, and many more. Finally, when I talk about this to my grandchildren, I will describe how peculiar it was to live in a way in which everyone was separated and had to stay away from each other. I’ll also talk about how dangerous it was because the virus spread invisibly without people having the slightest clue that they contracted until the symptoms hit. |
a7e4d4047e549c003981a281c99f4a893247fbdece11adb5fb8f4efaef4134f2 | ['4498eea73a6346ff9e6c6109ef48308f'] | Growing up, every lunch & dinner had meat..EVERY one. The people I grew up with literally feel like a lunch/dinner is incomplete w/o it. Now, though, my partner & I have meat maybe 2/week.
I feel like a realistic strategy is to convince people to eat meat FAR less (& eradicate factory meat farms altogether.)
HOWEVER, i don't feel like it's going to help when extremists keep insisting that the only morally justifiable solution is to not eat ANY meat; that if we truly care about animals, & even about social justice for people, then in order to be morally consistent we must stop eating ALL meat.
I don't believe that is true. We can radically reduce how much meat we eat, & evolve our farming structures (away from factories, & "back" to small family farms (with a larger focus on vegetables and grains.) This could actually be a line of backward thinking that even liberals could get behind (a form of maga.)
A vegan friend, though, once expressed on fb that they just don't *understand* how their friends could still be eating meat. When I tried to help them to understand why I, personally, still ate meat, it became abundantly clear that they really had no intention, at all, at trying to understand. For them it was an opportunity to win an argument.
Their reasoning used all-or-nothing logic, & cherry-picked sources, ignoring all science that didn't support their case.
Meat consumption reduction is the answer, imho. Insisting ANY meat is immoral is counterproductive, i believe. | a1d5e6ba8453546abdd1c3306b00e291c2412a2521829910b03251ecd845d6cc | ['4498eea73a6346ff9e6c6109ef48308f'] | I have another here, where I refer to the counterproductive approach of extremists (in the vegan community.)
I alluded to their cherry-picked sources and confirmation-bias blind-spots. Here are two examples, one from my friend and one from this article.
On the issue of deer-hunting as deer-population control in the midwest, the only source they quoted was from some online vegan proponent, whose arguments ignored the majority of the studies at universities where wildlife biologists seem to mostly agree that deer-hunting is a key strategy in preventing overpopulation.
In this article, Mr. <PERSON> writes "According to the research director...eating a plant-based diet is 'the most important contribution every individual can make to reversing global warming." Well, that statement was based on no research. I went to the site he referenced (Project Drawdown) and found the article Mr. <PERSON> was drawing from. Here's what he used: "As Zen master <PERSON> has said, making the transition to a plant-based diet may be the most effective way an individual can stop climate change." A zen master's quote doesn't count as research. While there's some truth to notion, it's not the *most effective* way.
Also, if the purist morality-shaming view turns off more people than it persuades, then it's more difficult to encourage a more likely positive scenario: significant meat consumption reduction, and toward more plan-based.
Absolutism & extremism poisons the well, imho. |
7bca71fd08cf7d693c9dbcde06b97f39dee29693b66cce2a231ae3afbdcaabc3 | ['44dbe509f8f549178b8958fb9171b1b6'] | For decades now the left wing of the Democratic Party heard the same refrain from the moderate Democrats...
Who else are they going to vote for the Republican?
Well now the shoe just might be on the other foot.
So to all the moderates worrying about <PERSON> I ask who else are you going to vote for... <PERSON>? | b3d8fb046f1d85c95a101ead148e973f81d7ee4a2cdbeb31613af98b24582758 | ['44dbe509f8f549178b8958fb9171b1b6'] | if you have kids hook them up to those classic live action Disney movies and TV shows from the 50s & 60s. My favs are <PERSON>, <PERSON> and Old <PERSON>. A totally overlooked gem is <PERSON> as Dr. <PERSON> in The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. You will enjoy watching with your children.
One more tip is to seek out great silent movies and read the title cards to your kids. Read them a movie! The best one to start off with is The Thief of Baghdad with <PERSON>. |
a4246c38987c75bb499f50c226ccebcca9933b70cca89376cb8a000ec452f463 | ['44fef4cddb1a404695f7ef05e920d665'] | @hen3ry People are blaming the off-campus parties. It's certainly evident these parties contributed to the outbreak. But we don't know whether students came to the campus with the virus as there was no testing. I think putting the blame solely on the students is misguided. There is responsibiliy to be taken at various levels. | dd2a0285eb56d24905e53b975231fcb429aa90d2063ced7840749ecd689f505f | ['44fef4cddb1a404695f7ef05e920d665'] | This is a terrible outcome of an already terrible situation. I've written before here about this (my son having lived through this experience at Oneonta, isolated with the illness). Perhaps the president could have handled the situation better, sure. However, I resent this "pass-the-buck" approach at the state level. Each school SHOULD NOT have had its separate plan. There should have been a uniform system for all SUNY schools. The governor accepted what Ms. <PERSON> proposed. The new chancellor comes in the middle of a crisis and now there IS a strategy, (but attached to it is a public punishment of the president ... this bravado on his part does not help). I don't know Ms. <PERSON>, but I am sure she struggled to maintain ties, student health, staff safety, and her dignity ... with VERY little support from the top. What a sad ending to a sad set of circumstances that might have benefitted from a higher level of support. |
5df1e50c15259d3ebce24120b762f3cf9c22ac5e7fc860531c2d2ec513f67f74 | ['453ec9f7154c44b4985e95420594517a'] | Anyone who comments that it’s about meritocracy should listen to the podcast Nice White Parents, it’s an eye opener. New York needs to desegregate its public schools and provide fair education for all. The comments about parental involvement in children’s education as a reason for giving some children better opportunities is particularly galling. This just concludes that those with single parents or parents that have to work two jobs or parents with addiction or mental health issues should be further disadvantaged by the education system that is meant to lift them up. Please stop just thinking about your own children and think about the community as a whole. | bd532ecb57d93b1d641ccaa3abe65fcbd6bbeaf070c1f69263d01038fba883ed | ['453ec9f7154c44b4985e95420594517a'] | This is absolutely brilliant and so needed. There has to be opportunities to make mistakes and learn for everybody but especially for young people. Otherwise we will be filled with bitterness and fear. I cringe when I think of some of the stupid statements and actions I learnt my lessons from. The internet has become about inflammation and dragging the most emotionally reactive responses from people and it’s not productive for society or our futures. We need to step back and recognize our shared humanity and give compassion and chances. |
3cfa7ab5dd101a9fc1782142e60d8175887fc80de348f66e8ac3d4e68910ef7e | ['453ef85da1884b5cbb42580f8d18b128'] | There are several places that would welcome the 71 million <PERSON> supporters. Among them are: Russia, Turkey, Philippines, Israel, Poland and India. There's no shortage of "democratically-elected" authoritarians. I can assume the Trumpers that if they immigrate, they will enjoy xenophobia, racism, homophobia, the suppression of dissent and the enrichment of The Leader and his cronies. Just like the last four years here! | 3709bc45eab49604b7fc3f9e0847f936a74df76c6a6da32db497c6e803ab3928 | ['453ef85da1884b5cbb42580f8d18b128'] | A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
<PERSON> |
f83bd359ef0609ce1fafb959088b820efe4b2b2c108f7a72cd0f1feb0831e5c0 | ['4553ce49eaa84ce2bf26a5d748bfdb1b'] | A shout-out for <PERSON>, the perpetual "other man" in so many movies in his 60-year career. You both believe why <PERSON> would be engaged to him and also understand why isn't the right guy for her. It's hard to be both likable and frustrating at the same time, and <PERSON> was a master of this. He's one of the undersung pleasures of this movie and one of many, many parts of what make His Girl Friday great. | d27edfe622c7c6ff9c798e69c87ed9d2c8dd34c17e9d6dbf1ecd444f9c33a0a4 | ['4553ce49eaa84ce2bf26a5d748bfdb1b'] | So the Times notes <PERSON> regrets, which are basically that she misses filming her YouTube influencer videos, but doesn't mention her earlier video where she said the only reason she wanted to go to college at all were the parties?
Sorry, but all I see in her claims is that she's mourning the loss of her influencer status. She could have made a general statement of sorrow at the situation without saying more (as she noted, she is legally enjoined otherwise).
And I also find it hard to believe that those enrolled under a sports scholarship somehow didn't find that odd when they didn't play that sport. Something should have been clear to them at that point.
I feel far more leniency towards those in high school at the time, and several of the students quoted here took action to establish their independent qualifications and expressed regret, which is the right thing to do.
But, based on these quotes, I truly wonder if <PERSON> has learned anything. |
cb1f6880ae750a9988861ba270035607bf63aad7c446022cb2f5fafc6502693f | ['455862651f114d36a2f6b1956fb8a383'] | Let's put a finer point on this elegant prose: Our current nominal "leaders" are seeking to upend democracy and substitute a brand of authoritarianism. The baiting and switching of the Republican ticket needs to be stopped in its calamitous tracks. Only then will there be time for commissions and studies to analyze how we got so close to yielding our 250-year-old commitment to democracy, fraught as it has been at times. The world is watching. | 92650beee57a107f546d35997ec7de45ba12aa720419966da874a1da59daf77b | ['455862651f114d36a2f6b1956fb8a383'] | This analysis is intellectually embarrassing. The key comparison of venues promotes a non sequitur. Liquor stores sell goods not limited to alcohol, and their existence depends on such commerce; visits are typically brief. Bike shops support individuals' ability to maintain their means of travel. In contrast, the manner of attendance of a church, synagogue, or mosque inherently subjects individuals to unintended SARS-CoV-2 exposure by asymptomatic attendees when alternatives to in-person worship are easily imaginable. The logic of the unfortunate majority opinion along with this apologism is disingenuous -- and the subtitle of this piece is particularly absurd. |
ff2e33d81a552914df08d1ee2e5661030b2f85dc6e7eaaa83be653172a136f63 | ['459dc52405484dd0861e7756b70d3889'] | I have waited for a story that would take <PERSON> down but I never wanted to hear something like this. I had 2 sons in the Marines both served at the same time in Iraq. One was in Fallujah and I knew the battle was coming. I remember the fear and dread I felt, the powerlessness because I knew there was nothing I could do to help him stay safe. I tried to imagine how I would react if a saw a military care pull up outside my home but I couldn't go there. I remember him telling me he was tired of the coffee and wanted to try different types and asked for walnut flavored coffee. I went all over town and when I couldn't find any at the last store I broke down crying. My son was in Fallujah and I couldn't even get him the coffee he wanted. My son came home, changed but safe, many others didn't. This story hit me hard today and, if true, is beyond depraved. I cry for the families that lost their loved ones and I cannot imagine the anguish, distress and anger after hearing this story. This is heartbreaking. | 8fcf7e42783bb49698ca4c1fa67888da8ffd900d83eb7f85b5b403733833a928 | ['459dc52405484dd0861e7756b70d3889'] | We on the left need to get over <PERSON>. We need to move on and talk and write about more meaningful things. Why are we still obsessed with him? Why give him any more attention, he lost, we won. The courts will deliver, most judges believe in the law and the Constitution, let them do their job. We really don't need <PERSON> do we? What we really need is a <PERSON> free life. We are making him more important than he is. He is a loser, lets treat him like one and IGNORE him, please |
5c64f931ca43d8c6a4d2917d4ef53144756d1acac664d710224956ebf4a023bc | ['45a98bf531ca4caaa2531de0a75c1d9a'] | That poor, innocent child. She must miss her mother so much, especially now entering her teenaged years. Her dad is incredibly cruel and selfish not to put any effort into helping his daughter maintain her relationship with her mother and the other half of her cultural heritage. What a boldfaced lie, to claim that her mother has never tried to reach out. | e169a73c460460ebb9b30bdb7fb4595b1922b5655fc59973c09427d7e74c228d | ['45a98bf531ca4caaa2531de0a75c1d9a'] | Could you write more regarding the likelihood of national digital currencies being issued, and how that would affect Bitcoin? Seems like an important and only briefly alluded to development. If Bitcoin does become a widespread store of value, it would directly compete with national currencies, rendering the latter much less effective. People would immediately convert to Bitcoin, and central banks and governments would not have the ability to truly control money supply, monitor for fraud, and otherwise reap the benefits of having a digital national currency. |
fe8c066dfefae54d4a42945eb50628b775fabb1ceab9702327174359eda55a52 | ['45c44e42c488472bb082170e2331d0b6'] | @John
You're missing the point. It's not the number of votes that a senator receives but the "power" of a state's citizen's vote. There are over 35 million people in CA but only 560 thousand in WY. With 2 senators from each statue each citizen's vote from WY counts for more than 60 citizens from CA. Since the electoral college is comprised of one elector per representative and senator states like WY have a much greater weight in choosing the president. Ergo, minority rule in presidental elections and the senate. | 027928033d65ae59fbc493cd0ffc719848ece20a77c0c77563760e3d928619df | ['45c44e42c488472bb082170e2331d0b6'] | <PERSON> Actually as <PERSON> pointed out there is a fourth option, the National Popular Vote bill - <a href="https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status" target="_blank">https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status</a>. It might be wishful thinking to get enough states with a majority of EC votes to pass it but it's better than any of the 3 strawman options you present. |
8ce38ca9d95d39d07a7af54849d8c263241bcd78afa36b11197ad162027d5435 | ['4628d49ad46b43069c0c6dcf60363a1c'] | Finally, a heck of a football coach is accepted as a heck of a football coach. Coach was NOT a Southern Californian but tried so hard to be. USC rejected him. Sometimes you go where you’re accepted instead of where you’re inspected, and things work out. He is unique. He is not perfect. He is a natural leader. He is not an English teacher. After a rocky roaded life, he’s on firm footing. GO TIGERS, JUST WIN COACH. It’s an old time good story. | d5ab268c7821adb150edbf13ddad31768241aa99946c15e2359624b95fc76a47 | ['4628d49ad46b43069c0c6dcf60363a1c'] | I love the station...I understand business and cash donations...I’m for spreading the geographic word on this sound. BUT, there must be many talented persons of color who can continue steering the sled. It would be a crime to let the ship take on more water.
What about getting financial assistance from star Black music performance stars. Aren’t the roots of the music that allowed them to springboard into amazing wealth, JAZZ?
The anniversary show should be a blend of people who earned the right to be there, Star musicians and donors. It’s amazing when this combination relaxes and sips on cocktails, what can be accomplished.
This can be fixed...remember there’s no I in the word TEAM. This is a group project.
The next party we can come down from Rhode Island, contribute, dine but we must have dialogue. |
7368f4700af604bad4711b0ae234a8c27f379c09bb978937aac45a5bacfd4e93 | ['466645a86c674c09adeae36625f08a7b'] | Hmm. Maybe we can "flip" North Carolina; Senator <PERSON> "temporarily" stepped down as Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee as soon as the SEC began to investigate his felony of trading on insider information and Senator <PERSON> is one of the most dismally-rated from that state - ever.
<PERSON>'s busy deflecting, incidentally. Ask him about his criminal career and he starts yapping about the coronavirus and plague. | cd9b02db8c6378880af5805bcbe38cf7fced8450612e3c7c0ef04ce4bcc824fd | ['466645a86c674c09adeae36625f08a7b'] | Shrug: as in 2016, Republicans think it's their moral obligation to steal elections by any means possible. Unfortunately for them, this time we'll be watching.
Remember Princeton about a dozen ago, when the Republicans wanted to re-elect a salesman for the family business? Since <PERSON> was going down in flames, the Republicans simply switched the votes - easy.
That time at least, we caught 'em. |
7716ee83049a4baf758b103c731b7183a6dde006fa92f220538f95188b70f9b8 | ['468083227eaf435492f2f34cef06c05d'] | This is <PERSON>. I appreciate this column for its evenhandedness, and its recognition that people of both genders sometimes lie. As a lawyer, I have no doubt that Ms. <PERSON>’s escalation of her accusation 27 years after the alleged events from inappropriate touching to now (only six weeks ago) being inflated to sexual assault just as <PERSON> is winning the nomination is patently suspect and not credible. She admires <PERSON>, so it would not surprise me if the Russians or the <PERSON> camp are making this worth her while. In an article in the NYT today, the authors noted that no lawyer from a respected group who takes cases to advocate for assault victims has been willing to take her case. I am not surprised. Her accusations are not documented, are inconsistent, and were vastly inflated just this March. She says she filed a complaint with a Senate office back in 1993, but she apparently neither kept a copy nor filed an inquiry as to how her complaint was being processed.
Let me be clear, however: I abhor sexual assault and believe it should be vigorously prosecuted and punished. Ms. <PERSON> has no credible prima facie case, however. <PERSON> | 11f9a54ea4946f7d5c39cd7a96f2cea61e5c32d5b0449555c8f2bc403db2bbf5 | ['468083227eaf435492f2f34cef06c05d'] | This is <PERSON>. This column is spot on. Too often <PERSON> and <PERSON> and their followers appear to think that other Democrats who don’t agree with them on everything are the enemy, when in fact Democrats generally share values and goals but differ on tactics and pragmatic evaluations of what is reasonably achievable. The Democrats need to have a friendly conversation about how to work together rather than having the progressives dogmatically reject any departure from their favored policies. For example, all leading Democrats favor universal health, but only the progressives insist their favored method of Medicare for all is the only way to do it. The liberal center is more inclined to make a public option available to all while allowing people who like their private insurance to keep it. And no one mentions that Medicare has gaps in it, so much so many people on it purchase supplemental policies from the private insurance market. All Democrats should keep their eye on the prize here, which is universal coverage, and have a rational conversation about the best way to get there. Rather than indulging their tendency to make dogmatic stands, I hope progressives will be willing to engage in a constructive discussions with liberals about best to achieve universal care. Working together will be far better than fighting about shibboleths.
<PERSON> |
fd5bb8de8ede4f2774d5480334f5d12e97689bcb43e97d74f0b33acd5b54a1fc | ['46ac613cf7744efeb43a37618d03698c'] | The animals as property philosophy is outdated and laws need to change with the times. Today, veterinarians don't simply maintain working farm animals. By and large they owe their livelihoods to treating animals that most people consider to be part of their families. Would anyone think twice if an MD's license was revoked permanently if he was witnessed slapping a baby in his care because it was crying? Let alone abusing a patient with such anger causing the death of that patient? My personal opinion is that animal abusers should face jail time. But certainly they should not be allowed to practice veterinary medicine. Any more than a child molester should be allowed to run a day care center. | 124112e8f595788acee2be0e45cf322f4995483d2618db4185984e4b24455222 | ['46ac613cf7744efeb43a37618d03698c'] | <PERSON> wanted to win the election, as if the presidency were some trophy he could put in a gilded display case. The problem is that he does not want to do the work. Nor is he fit for it. I think it would be a relief for him to not be reelected. But then there's the inevitable legal issues he's going to face once out of office. He's trapped either way. |
115dc2fb181b7bd25cdb4ff9487f24a894af501cad25ec30c57b928d7a44c5a5 | ['46c54f4026624ac1a943cf5f6aa11b9c'] | I am not a scientist. It is an overstatement to say that if population declines, we will eventually disappear. Humans are ingenious, we will adapt, a decline is inevitable and good for our world and population. Technology will replace some of the humans that China is missing and lastly, once there are less people and life is a bit easier, people will reconsider having more kids. | f0078f36b3b0b9f748bf2969eaec98134a37288b78df682f3eda74516e6219dc | ['46c54f4026624ac1a943cf5f6aa11b9c'] | no amount of money from <PERSON> and friends, no increase in min wage, no rent controls will fix the problems we have in our country. Zoning (public regulatory capture) is the mold in the bread. The supply is lower than the demand, so if we increase the demand (adding money) it will only increase the costs. We need to increase the supply of housing in our country, we need to force communities to "include" all socioeconomic stratus in their zoning per a percentage rule. One city shouldn't have to carry the weight of the poor for the community next to it. That only shifts the tax burden to the poorer community.
This supply/demand theory works for transportation and for health as well.. Should a school be receiving govt. loans, gifts and money, it should be forced to have night school, the classrooms should be full all day everyday, no summer vacation. College could be completed in 2 years this way. Cutting the overhead costs, increasing our supply of doctors, nurses and the like. We need more, and regulations and licensing is decreasing the numbers we are producing.
I am not advocating for the lessening of standards, I am only advocating that schools should not get away with empty classrooms and labs during the "work" day. We need better production from our institutions at all levels. |
ce70c6dfec5f9264665f043b54e3ab50df9c8b373eecbb3f523f684312b0b145 | ['46cf018402fc42c4bc707eabab0b3d27'] | @Paul Really sorry, DJT and his Incoming Administration was at fault. It is clear, that the out for <PERSON> and Russia was to blame the Obama Administration for undermining <PERSON>. There are three key issues. 1) Since Russia knew <PERSON> has lied, he was subject to being compromised by them. 2) Further, he was working as an unregistered agent with Turkey to have a clergy returned to Turkey for prosecution and persecution. 3) As a former DNI, he should have known he was being listened to and if there was no untoward behavior, why did he lie? He could have easily told the truth. Is this the man who should be a National Security Advisor? Is this a man who should not be punished? The antics by <PERSON> and <PERSON> in recent days show they are both dangerous men and are never to be believed. | 1a5cb0b5b585f5781b760cb7af7713307d86c4a5a58fc62b45c11103808e3d92 | ['46cf018402fc42c4bc707eabab0b3d27'] | We find out, unfortunately, that <PERSON>’s wife wore a jacket to the border saying “ I do not really care, do you?” to get the liberals upset. She told others how well children were treated at the border and about their happiness to have a bed to sleep in.The cages we saw do not suggest any child had a bed. We learn despite this Be Best effort, the First Lady supports her husband and his administration’s deplorable treatment of children and families. The same people fighting Planned Parenthood are actually negatively impacting the lives of infants and children people care for and sought a better life for them. Truly deplorable!! |
66798e093db71b87c3069aa32e57a4dbc73ea2e6f1f49a3acfced03c46d4f1b1 | ['46e941bf0cea4a93b57ad523378f0c9c'] | He wants to help people in legal troubles who benefit or have benefited him in any way, he can do this in different ways, but he's not supposed to intervene in the Justice system directly. If he wants to dig up more dirt on political opponents, he doesn't have to look far, he's standing right in it, the swamp he was supposed to be draining. It's not only the swamp from past Presidency's, it's the swamp that he himself created. | 5e565cfa0a947c3c140d4d97713435e4b1f5d74182e99e7a310cc95434882e22 | ['46e941bf0cea4a93b57ad523378f0c9c'] | The bottom line is, there is basically nothing new written about <PERSON> in this book. Nothing we, the American people, didn't already know about him since the '70. He is 3 years older then I am, and I heard and read a lot about him in News, TV, Magazines, etc. I'm also one of them who couldn't believe it when he won the Presidency, with all that dirt and slime he was dragging for years since the '70. I can imagine that only people who never heard about him voted for him. Such a decomposed personality could or should never have been POTUS. |
631f57fada4e951f86ff66748c8485a9a8d78f2d9a0eae28612bc4d3792c0dcf | ['4702f8b73944489f82406577bccf8640'] | Could it be that the increase in abortions among our Black citizens has more to with lack of access to decent insurance and birth control coupled with poorer wages that make raising a child an unbearable burden than some sinister plot by Planned Parenthood to get then to kill themselves off? Do you believe in birth control <PERSON>? Or is that too revolutionary for such an old fashioned boy? | dcd1a6183bad676e67be309508f1366697ef1aeaad49a891dd33f7992d37b816 | ['4702f8b73944489f82406577bccf8640'] | As I watched <PERSON>'s face becoming redder and sweatier I was reminded of <PERSON> sweating if out in his debate with <PERSON> That was the best part of this 'debate'- trump glowering and glistening as he refused to answer direct questions, lying and insisting he has a plan for anything other than more chaos. This morning I have read criticisms of <PERSON> for not being able to control the debate- re- trump. What was he to do? Bring out a roll of duct tape?? |
95ab1ebac625a93b68bf983d4e4ad87e22c7d1d80b6dca3e152310238c780cbc | ['4730827989ca42dfa40069e0d45bfacf'] | The republicans are trying to con you into thinking that with the presidential election coming up that a new administration is coming in to clean up the current situation in the USA. Well, the current administration is the cause of the state that the USA is in right now. If you want more of the same vote for <PERSON>. | 61d5de13d5687598f8ddb04e50e786dd3c43170550f6e951a0b1378956e8d6c6 | ['4730827989ca42dfa40069e0d45bfacf'] | "Playing on that fear, the Senate majority leader, <PERSON>, sought a quick impeachment trial for President <PERSON>"
<PERSON> afraid of him, too. He's not that popular in Kentucky because of a few clashes with <PERSON> in the past. He's up for election so he doesn't want to mess with <PERSON> at all. So for now he's brown nosing like a good boy. |
f5ea11039fc20fc612fac90941c4fbf0f4836aa0c073d1c8a9b3b25173431364 | ['4733210133ec4adfac0ca936bf1cad0a'] | Realistically, objectively, barring unforeseens, these events make <PERSON> the presumptive. Given the fact, the clear fact, that superdelegates tilt against <PERSON>, <PERSON> would have to have an insurmountable lead heading into the convention in order to get it. A tie, or even a close contest with <PERSON> behind a little, will always go for <PERSON>. Sure, its not over yet...but it is. | 4248ff28f3f6f5b762078f34a4bb9b6cde8eebfb41c1a236d7f6f3544df3a69c | ['4733210133ec4adfac0ca936bf1cad0a'] | @Diogenes
Not really. <PERSON> is a solid Democrat, it just doesn't seem that way given the direction of the contemporary Democratic party.
He's a Social Democrat. He understands that we live in a two party system and he hopes to pull the Democratic party away from Corporate Democratic and into Social Democratic. He hopes to return it back to a party that is actually for the people, just as it pretends to be. If successful, this might strengthen the Democratic party because the party would be less riddled with hypocrisy. Voters, after all, recognize that, lately, Democratic Presidents and Representatives have essentially enacted Republican policies (fiscal, not social).
It would be great if third parties worked in America but they don't. If <PERSON> was third party he'd be discounted, would be considered a "spoiler," and lose massive votes because the American system hobbles third-party candidates. <PERSON> being third party would only benefit Republicans. |
a0022288e037938ef7d09eb22b70dcd419a020fed32b8e6130c2fd6624a85ee2 | ['4768bc67f6144225ac38c61202aa8b89'] | Without testing we really don't know how wide spread this is. Thereby all numbers concerning cvd 19 are skewed. Any death everywhere should be lab tested to have at least one accurate stat for print.
Flawed investigations lead to inaccurate numbers and fake science. Fewer is better for the mope in charge. Reflects less poorly on him for his negligence of preparedness. | 102e913cba2ad00f9afd2de80df01483e62cc08abb775a7b78c691506a1502b9 | ['4768bc67f6144225ac38c61202aa8b89'] | @Chickpea
Well said, thanks.
The constitution identifies the three branches of government , their roles, influence and jurisdictions.
Two and a half branches failed in in HD pixelation, recorded for history. The GOPs epilogue.
Patriot citizens tho disheartened must be reminded that there is not only something of our system to rewrite and fix, but plenty that needs preserving and defended as righteous.
Dems will fail again if this isn't marketed correctly, an epilogue through inaction and indecision.
The majority non-extreme middle of both parties need to find their own voice and be a part of the 'RESTORATION' |
cab503ed78e35d69bd50c480caa64f84fefd5295527afbbcb877e5853e7d415d | ['487668e04ccb4b4b8be6c400a7ded1bd'] | The Risk That Students Could Arrive at School With the Coronavirus
I was always acclaimed in class for being an intelligent student. When EDL (Emergency Distance Learning) came, my grades went downhill. Amid the noisy chatter of students and the radiant classroom was where I was able to do my finest work. And, when we learned from home, work was overloaded. I can assure you that from an educational standpoint, EDL was the most abhorred experience I had faced.
This article caught my eye because I desperately want to head back to school. I wanted to get back on track to being the ace student I was. There would be prices I needed to pay to get back, such as wearing an uncomfortable mask, 24/7. But whilst I read the article, the dangers of going back revealed themselves. With the estimates provided in the article, there is a probability than anywhere from four to twelve people could carry the virus in my school itself! Even though exposure with people would be certain if we went back to school, people are suggesting that groups of around ten students could also be a possibility. These so-called groups are known as "pods" will reduce the dangers of us getting ill.
To wrap it all up, the author quotes professor <PERSON>, “One infection is too many.” This statement is true stating that one person's illness could be a life or death situation for me at school but without the best opportunities to learn, neither will you lead the most top - hole life. | 72fd1ca599431894298ba4f5b8bb765c699edd28bb7710ed2ec6ea4474b55b7c | ['487668e04ccb4b4b8be6c400a7ded1bd'] | "How Children’s Sleep Habits Have Changed in the Pandemic"
Whist the pandemic raged on my sleeping habits have gotten more and more abysmal. Sleeping at midnight and waking up at ten became the new normal for me. Before my eyes shut, I stared at electronic devices. These habits that have been developed since the start of lockdown are detested by my mother. Every night, she keeps uttering the same words. " Go to bed early and wake up early, that's what is best for your health."
I have full confidence in my mother's words but I am always the person who challenges others. So, I dug deeper and stumbled upon this article. In it, they talked about an experiment, one which compared the sleep of kids who were enduring through the pandemic and ones who lived in 2018. The ones which lived in 2020, were sleeping way later, than usual but to my surprise, they were sleeping much better. The sleep of kids improved in the pandemic as they had received more attention from family, they faced a lower amount of academic burden among other things. Most interrupted sleeping occurred when kids were using electronic devices an hour before sleep. In the article, the author quotes Dr. <PERSON>," She emphasized the need for an hour of screen-free time before bed: “It takes an hour for the brain to calm down." "
After reading and looking back at my own experiences, I have concluded two things. The pandemic has positively and negatively impacted my sleep and mothers are always right. |
7e330b6c92f7d649ff3ac9836293ed7770779cf5cf9dc7e35ade2a70fdf18725 | ['48976b42618544ceac987d3af23a1f99'] | When it became clear the wouldn't be able to adjourn for Christmas, the GOP quickly dropped the idea of preventing the Fed to lend money and that "liability shield".
But <PERSON> got in and out at the speed of light. They were just running out the clock to leave <PERSON> a mess.
<PERSON> knows his way around the Senate, and while he's talking a good game, I hope he will remember how they treated <PERSON>. | 9ccb0097654c2a4ee9e2b44a7bf29cef50502643dbaef1235cc85cdfe8cb3023 | ['48976b42618544ceac987d3af23a1f99'] | This is typical Republican behavior: claim victimhood and persecution whenever faced with facts. They throw insults left and right but when told "excuse me, you're nuts" they feign outrage.
Oh: and it's not a delusion if all the scientists laugh at you. It's NOT about you, but of what's coming out of your mouth. |
d2ba5db7b9bdd6b7a579b20a5fe6894c544071672397258fde0234fed6f36b1e | ['48c12c98c83c45b7a76cd31271b4aaad'] | My wife and I paid twice in September 2015 for the same tix to this, um, “drama” (I bought them online for the wrong dates and then again at the London theater’s box office when my mistake was discovered), which we’d selected to see w friends based on its rumored hit-status. Zzzzzzzz. Not for everyone, including anyone wanting to be awakened by something new, rather than coddled to sleep, like a senior in a chair by the fire, by something familiar. | 2b8dd7cfde590af2641734482fc5f58c5c86c1e4cab2075da985868721f2c874 | ['48c12c98c83c45b7a76cd31271b4aaad'] | Conflating the known problems of cigarette smoking & chewing with the unknown and perhaps non-existent problems of marijuana smoking seems somewhat of an overreaction. People who smoke marijuana often do not smoke nearly as much or as often as cigarette smokers nor is there much actual evidence of the same dire consequences. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater -- on the other hand, if edibles and patches will provide the medicine you need, why not abstain from smoking and vaping for a while? |
14e31a8d82307556d41583166c9203d1f75f1f6a4e7bd7e456074a340d1bba71 | ['49468bdd88ba496d88894f4fa8a41714'] | Ms. <PERSON> is always fun to listen to. However, she is out of step with the aspirations of the FIRE - Financial Independence Retire Early - movement. Her ethos is work, work, work, work, work some more, then die with a lot of money. She infamously stated that you could not retire early unless you had $10m. This is just old fashioned thinking, which keeps the worker tied to their job. Ms. <PERSON> needs to evolve to remain relevant as the world is changing. | f12c888c23d20be4196b42e75175cd59bb52c23a449c02be3cc9bd5bcc45b7d6 | ['49468bdd88ba496d88894f4fa8a41714'] | Teachers are used to the scenario where new demands are placed upon them, and they are told to come up with the solutions themselves, without the required resources. You cannot do this in a pandemic. Teachers know that the PPE would not be there. They know that they would be buying their own hand sanitizer, and also be on the front lines of a "culture war" over masks. <PERSON> made a serious error in his attacks on "liberal" teachers. He created - as usual - more division, and eventually this led to organized resistance from the teacher unions. Unfortunately <PERSON> also emboldened frustrated parents to take out their frustrations on the teachers in their communities. |
7e75eec09da8e2a9d446b0ee5a5f80dfee0fcb21bef98356009a09bdeded30d2 | ['495e751575734253a50f7f60c158579d'] | I now split my time between Sarasota FL and Michigan. I currently watch with horror how Florida’s <PERSON> has botched its good fortune of having relatively few cases in the beginning, to one of the worst in the nation.
I am grateful for “big Gretch” she has been stellar, steadfast, and serious. She took one of the worst effected states, shut it down, and clearly helped drive down the severity of the pandemic in Michigan. We are lucky to have her. | cf1de4f93f1d202ce16d66315ebed45f257ffec2ea16812d09fdf70f24449137 | ['495e751575734253a50f7f60c158579d'] | I couldn’t agree more it’s an art that’s fun and tasty and at least for me very calming. I think the challenge of getting the starter up and running is a big part of the fun, also believe it or not, it makes a great gift.
I started making pizza dough too, and I think I have made more sausages then I will be able to eat this year.
If you can get your hands on some veal bones, a lot of them, making a Demi-glacé has the same pace and satisfaction, and if you live in a cold climate, it warms and humidifies the house in a most wonderful way. |
64f91f9d014cc50b87ffb37814fd78e73f7c9eb2e15cad65b09995bf4a61b0d3 | ['4985ffb98c6c455a82b3c1dc80c0bc29'] | -Does it make a sense to fight for the life of an unborn human while still sending the same saved human life to capital punishment ?
-Is there a program or policy to prevent this sad turnout?
Would every felon change their conduct if they are supported by a system that works for the poors as well?
*PS: The way someone die seems to interest most Pulitzer seekers. | 54dc467ec1b904338b8dcf78ec2d0617abf05f9f9071a9fc8ab8a1b99765f4d9 | ['4985ffb98c6c455a82b3c1dc80c0bc29'] | I have found a wonderful article written by <PERSON>, written in 2012. "Before Mom went viral". Is it something better to describe <PERSON>?
I remember my late granny in her 90´s and also my mother in law that is exactly 93 yrs old now. Both of them vibrant and in love with food: extraordinary women. Food, course, in a humble way, in a Colombian way: positive, flourish, warming, the big garden of the world. |
6e76e9146b4ddbb93aa506879c0a0c81c7295f29df71e72e7dd962be18eb9e55 | ['49c511c62d8f49878c04e5c83d05ba5d'] | Why was <PERSON> wrong for calling out the "right-wing conspiracy" in 1998? That wasn't sour grapes, it was a prophecy. Did no one (apparently a lot of dumb people in the Democratic party) not think the chickens were going to come to roost for them, for our country, our world? The right-wing press of the time was already accusing the <PERSON> of sexual assault, murder, and treason. Two years later with the help of Fox News W steals the presidency, unleashing the disastrous Iraq War, hyper-aggressive nationalism, the war on terror, with its slow erosion of our personal and civil liberties (no coincidence that <PERSON> "forgot" the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances and was vague on the right to privacy), and the financial crisis. All paved the way for <PERSON>. All paved the way for him to rail against a "failed political class," never even mind <PERSON>'s sabotage of President <PERSON>'s tenure. <PERSON> was right about everything. No qualifiers needed. | 2922d77ca44d76589d11c2c62ad72b9afe1f57f9b81bbf83e8a0b42d7bbd5711 | ['49c511c62d8f49878c04e5c83d05ba5d'] | The Oscars were literally founded as a PR event to boost ticket sales. Of course they aren't more than that. Coupled with Hollywood's special exemptions from EEOC laws in the 60's, it's resulted in fanciful, ridiculous dreck from the industry, even when they are doing their "best" work. I'd say the awards don't matter, except they do. Irish film historian <PERSON> dismissed American studio films as "the shiny bauble." Awards or not, not all these people are going to be <PERSON> or <PERSON>, but in the long run if we don't fund the portrayal of reality in our films (dependent on silliness like the Oscars) we aren't going to have much of a cinema. The nearest gauge of actual film merit that exists is the national film registry. |
0c9ff2681cc2ad2b04f2f0d9b973e0337b42e89c76dcff3cdd7a8c23ddb0a7a9 | ['4a70b66ddd454838aae8d07683947cdb'] | I’ve been saying this for years! We as consumers have been complicit in this system because we’re not willing to pay the true cost for goods - I.e. the labor costs (and vehicle maintenance costs) that permit a living wage. True, Uber and other ride share companies made the app that makes it much easier to get a ride......but they didn’t make the true cost of a ride cheaper. They just created an abusive labor market with more gloss to hide it. | b141dfa2aa19f0a7f6c0df5fe0337e732980396b2e0f4f76c51f14d2434a4e85 | ['4a70b66ddd454838aae8d07683947cdb'] | #2 is the one that annoys me most. Once people are out of science and public health careers they are gone for good. They aren’t waiting in the wings fir a chance to return. Also, when bright young people see that these jobs are unstable they avoid them. Science and public health are an investment that pays off. But their daily impact is hidden to most people so they have the mistaken idea that the people working in these fields are dispensable. Wrong. |
90f51911531d58fa875554908a6505089dcf2330d01bc5c4eadc65151fdabe06 | ['4abeeceb429048e89cc519bd2259b1ac'] | Nice piece <PERSON> and I appreciate you rightly calling out that governments (especially an economy like the US) really isn't at risk of running out of money, rather the complexity is balancing it with the cost of inflation (which in effect raises the hurdle rate). I'd like to propose an additional consideration as you think about importance of government spending and it should be familiar to most investors/owners - Return on Capital. Right now, 10 year notes are trading at ~70 bps, we must be able to find investments (like infrastructure!) that would generate economic returns that would exceed this and be economically profitable. I'm not close enough to know them specifically but surely there are plenty of low-political risk transportation (let alone education and healthcare) projects that would be accretive over their useful life. So, even among the most cynical of us who assume all sorts of waste and inefficiency, when the costs are so low, why wouldn't we invest? Food for thought as our leaders debate "stimulus" packages, perhaps we consider some long-term capital investments that grow the pie rather than operating expenses that give everyone a tiny sliver. Thanks again for the thoughtful piece! | b3d96c8904c6831e83cc7f66291291832e2e6bbcb4dc3117466b9a2bf04b9774 | ['4abeeceb429048e89cc519bd2259b1ac'] | NY’er recently relocated to Dallas, so I’m observing the contrast first hand. Perhaps, more simply, a large amount of the country subscribes to the Republican policy platform ideals, but just not the President. As someone who votes blue more often than red, why is that so hard to believe? All of flyover country is not racists and troglodytes, just different day to day priorities...if we preach tolerance and understanding, we should do our best to practice it as well. |
008440d6a65b1ac39ca9f2007826404979e579f6edc373b9854901444ecf8a3e | ['4acf5af0a7924b878a8a3e175ea4a51b'] | I saw this play in early January. I left furious. The use of video to tell the story was insanely distracting. It dominated the cast members who, otherwise, I am sure, could have told this compelling story. I couldn't help wondering if the producers were just trying to save money on set design and development. "Let's tell them it's a brilliant new take on the classic! There's a sucker born every minute!"
Lesson learned. It will be long time before this sucker antes up money for Broadway tickets. | 5534dd7e51283488fbceaa3b6e27391a9be71d65d9fe892edb300604f14eabcb | ['4acf5af0a7924b878a8a3e175ea4a51b'] | Thank you so much for addressing this. I recently retired from a local county government where virtue signaling drove pubic policy and human resources. Sat through interminable seminars, inspired by critical race theory, which strongly implied that we, as workers, were thoughtlessly contributing to inequality. The evidence was non-existent and the solution was a series of Orwellian exercises to expiate our white supremacy ideas. In the meantime, the real welfare of low income people (many of whom were people of color) was completely ignored (as evidenced by pay scales for county-contracted janitorial staff). While I certainly embrace a more complete understanding and empathy of issues people of color face in this country, I think it is high time to shift the public policy conversation to increasing the welfare and security of all Americans. |
150f7fb4135c52553b758e2825d2001969191425a09e088f8baa7b684089594d | ['4adfbfa4335443518de134a88a913d90'] | 1. I notice that the arrows are all pointing up and different colors like red and blue. Most of the presidents ages are older like over 50.
2. I wonder Why all of the presidents are older when your able to start running at age 35
3. this makes an impact because this makes it so that the president has a higher chance of dying from a heart attack or old age.
4. Senior Presidents Over Youth Presidents | 3f86b716311931372a68bc26dff8ec4a897222a988c2fb59a6cdab8902c25bb9 | ['4adfbfa4335443518de134a88a913d90'] | I notice that it shows what our climate change and how our climate is now from the graph and it shows every county in the USA and what their climate is and what the climate changes could be. I wonder how they know what the climate change is going to be when it hasn't happened yet, even though a little of change has happened. this shows that we could start taking more care of our environment and it could help us make it go back to the way it was instead of having it change and make us eventually die out. |
290807a1b054ffc79e30ac237b2170349ee6362ce4d26f02fe196cb59c1e593b | ['4ae9939476ea4c15ba31315ae56d7e52'] | Wish him well so that ACB can be confirmed, ACA can be struck down, Roe can be overturned, Black lives can continue not to matter, and the Billionaire income bracket can remain America’s lowest taxed? I don’t wish <PERSON> dead, but I can’t see how I’d wish him well. | 1bce46a0cb97a5ac69302dbcc3d195e125a3184d29fb0628fdc2218dfcccac22 | ['4ae9939476ea4c15ba31315ae56d7e52'] | Relative silence of Democrat and Republican leaders? Have you already forgotten <PERSON>’s impeachment? The Democrats spoke out eloquently then and made a tight and impassioned case for the removal of a menace. The Republicans enjoyed the spectacle and then voted to continue the transformation of our country into an authoritarian state. I supported the impeachment, but have learned <PERSON> lesson - it’s the ballot box or bust. |
ed0993615a512b3382fa90e04b7c640d941c0c62ddf6163ae8f73d0a12e86149 | ['4b07f58ad9984b8599fc4283fbc97d65'] | An interesting piece but I can't help this is the same propaganda foisted on us to maintain the status quo. Please explain why the wealthiest bracket must increase their income at a rate higher than the lowest in order for the lowest to make gains.
Indeed, the thought experiment discounts the possibility that other magic wands may increase lower bracket incomes by a higher multiplier without increasing the higher bracket incomes as substantially. Also, just because people earn more today than their parents, after adjusting for inflation, doesn't mean they are in a better economic situation. How about controlling for debt? I make more than my parents but I have way more debt thanks to student loans.
This piece doesn't convince me that the system isn't rigged. The 2008 financial crisis taught me it is. | 2b866b5cf20de4cf640de6089e2732724f35bc8ef5cc65452c1f22b5ce136f0d | ['4b07f58ad9984b8599fc4283fbc97d65'] | I'm tired of people advertising their recipes as "the perfect" or "the best." There is no such thing given that taste is subjective. These terms are just tired internet search lures or headline grabbers. How about a little creativity to complement what appears to be a well-researched recipe? |
c1704686c0e4d7861036ff75ee594b0383ccf1918ee47c3fb956318f4d2635d3 | ['4b4356fae63b48b48984f240fe064828'] | <PERSON> You don't need testing to measure the excess deaths this year over the average for any particular date.
If the homicidal maniac in the White House suppresses testing to lower confirmed cases, he will succeed in making isolation and contact tracing of infected individuals ineffective and thus increasing infections and deaths. But deaths are still recorded in this country, even if their cause is unknown or misattributed. The excess deaths in the country are easily measured, have been measured, and exceed the number of deaths officially attributed to COVID-19.
It's not a mystery why thousands and thousands more Americans are dying each month than would otherwise be expected. They're not dying of mask-induced asphyxiation. They're dying of <PERSON>-induced COVID-19 infection. | a0e622bc8403e3a304b6db408aeeac05f811f91475e1534ff9a23c2d148bd93f | ['4b4356fae63b48b48984f240fe064828'] | Five red-light violations???
Why on Earth would anyone with three or more red light violations in the same year have a license?
I think I got one once for not coming to a full stop before a legal turn on a red light. But that was on a bicycle and it was also about 30 years ago. I have probably missed a light a few times and cruised through shortly after a light turned red and I routinely fail to come to a full stop before legal right turns on a red light, but I've never been caught doing it. I'm not an excellent driver. I speed. But how many times do you have to run red lights to get two or more red-light tickets in the same year. Five is absurd.
And fifteen speeding citations are just as bad.
Were these rules drafted to avoid impact on cabbies who dive (badly) all day? |
bc24336fca4bdae38c6d1184360cb6f3c093a24d045cd7e31b7a9cfa536b50cc | ['4bf3901947944dda8aef2164abad2c25'] | @a There is no "prestige factor". Medical profession simply allows families to prosper through less unethical means.
Is it possible that Muslims are refused service because they simply choose not to obey the Government guidance regarding maintaining social distancing? Here is an article:
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-tablighi-jamaat-delhi/2020/04/02/abdc5af0-7386-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-tablighi-jamaat-delhi/2020/04/02/abdc5af0-7386-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html</a> | a1c701667d4753ae3944f725ba8dc4ea75937ee67f3ee12a7a54942a52ba8766 | ['4bf3901947944dda8aef2164abad2c25'] | <PERSON> - I am truly sorry for your loss, but let us look at your case objectively. Was your family member deemed Covid negative? What would have happened if your family member was Covid positive and have infected people in the hospital? Are you saying that you are ok with that?
MOST governments in the world ended up having to make imperfect decisions because there was and is, so much that we still do not know about this virus. Most countries were caught completely off-guard and did not not have proper PPE or testing equipment. India and <PERSON> is no exception. I would dare say that if he had not set the tone and taken decisive action, the death toll would have been significantly higher.
Yes, India need to invest more in providing healthcare services to all its citizens and I am confident that it will happen.
Colonist created infrastructure? Hogwash. The colonist raped, pillaged and plundered the country and invested in infrastructure only when it was in their interest to so that they could plunder and pillage more. Stop talking nonsense. |
2be685c4d1fe0704ca6c98a4094581e102b54843eda01f7bae1c496935e07309 | ['4c2ad0ce87054086996e20e189427695'] | As a progressive in a conservative state I think there is one thing more threatening to the republicans than their allegiance to trump-ism. That is the death of their party, look at all the traditionally red states that are percentage points away from turning blue and the youth vote in those states moving farther left. <PERSON> might not turn off his base, but he does turn off non-voters and future voters in these usually red states and that is how <PERSON> won. | 5ddf2ebf7e28d396dc00d8fad154c6d842ee216638e50d294724c511d986743d | ['4c2ad0ce87054086996e20e189427695'] | You got that right, <PERSON>'s Medicare For All is the only Medicare For All and it is the most conservative program I would personally back. If I had it it my way we would move the entirety of our healthcare sector under public domain. Public doctors, Public Hospitals, Public Ambulances all free at point of service.
HUMAN LIFE=HUMAN RIGHT
Healthcare is a Human Right
and I won't rest in until we build a system that respects that right! |
b0f62541885a54e9dc2fe2d66b0c5f5d710d50ef7dfc0c7d8c3eba8a018bc0ed | ['4c51bffbb5e940e0bc67ddc4aebfa7fa'] | Citizens United must be legislated away. A real "person" votes based upon many different interests and values. A corporation "votes" i.e. hires lobbyists, contributes to candidates, etc. based upon a narrower range: relatively short-term financial payback that they can use to keep the directors, and more importantly, the CEOs, in place. | 7b93dd1777d48a8548be3e842d603dcb7a68d6ef778408d4c0a0d65c1afe56aa | ['4c51bffbb5e940e0bc67ddc4aebfa7fa'] | Apparently whatever success many of these appointees have had in the private sector wasn't based on use of self-restraint. Amazing, but then, I've been finding that my beloved country has many, many people residing there who I seem to have little in common with and it makes me sad for my grandchildren. |
af37222b9046de6501d9dd4e5df23e9c9d1fbd663787929136e83e859ab45ba9 | ['4c771ed2676f4731b4d090331a9dbe50'] | The hasidim have their own Rabbinic court system, medical corps and emergency medical corps. They are the only minority in the US that have been given such powers. Is it then surprising they don't follow the Covid rules of the city? The same laws and rules should apply to all citizens across our society. No special exceptions. | b73cdb60d2d796f2595e11d7a57635b0e0894b6f55d80bcb8731fc02d61f5d32 | ['4c771ed2676f4731b4d090331a9dbe50'] | There is a crucial element missing in this article - SECURITY. South Africa and Hout Bay in particular have seen skyrocketing murder rates. This house has no fencing or burglar bars because of course they would ruin the houses aesthetic. This is a beautiful house in any other part of the world - but in South Africa it's death trap. Hout Bay Crime article here: <a href="https://www.sentinelnews.co.za/news/hout-bay-crime-in-numbers/#:~:text" target="_blank">https://www.sentinelnews.co.za/news/hout-bay-crime-in-numbers/#:~:text</a>=%E2%80%9CThe%20number%20of%20murders%20in,this%20period%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20said. |
039eb4f991d3814bc9a0e24b54221659e7b8928d74a7f5d1a9594d23a8c7959c | ['4dc5622f3d784872ae855bb895afa6c4'] | There also needs to be immediate research on better ventilator design that reduces lung damage. Is enough attention being paid to this (together with drugs and vaccines)? Given that this is front-line treatment, engineers and biophysicists should get together fast to understand the limits of the current design and areas of improvement. | 7d09fedf46ad1155a34596f3689613ce43ae2a7151b20ed76192f341e46f381a | ['4dc5622f3d784872ae855bb895afa6c4'] | In early June, while taking an evening walk, we found that 30th street between 10th and 11th avenue had been fenced up, including the sidewalks. We could not walk on 30th street or on the surrounding sidewalks, or through Hudson yards and the space around the vessel. The security guard said that the stretch of 30th street, along with the plaza around the vessel, was privately owned. The fence has since been removed - but this seemed like a preview of a gated complex to come in the future - not an open or welcoming NYC urban space. |
c18e4c7780ad2b06a5802c6d12257f3b852cca0d580b86957021009e689278bb | ['4dda93195730403689cfdd4bff56dd3d'] | If 75,000 Nevadans have already voted -- when only 84,000 participated in the 2016 caucus -- it would appear that the caucus is already over for all intents and purposes. Not only is it over, but it was over before the debate even took place.
How is it possible that the Democrats have a high-stakes presidential debate in Nevada AFTER most people have already voted? | a8aaa44d6dd0f544560bc76c56a117e0176aa93858a53ad20876fdff3fe0a5e4 | ['4dda93195730403689cfdd4bff56dd3d'] | Governor <PERSON> -- who only holds the governorship because most voters don't realize that he is not the same person as <PERSON> -- should get down on bended knee and beg Mr. <PERSON> to return to work. The vain and uninformed idea that Mr. <PERSON> can get along without him --- well, we tried that for six years previously and how did that work out?
Meanwhile Mayor <PERSON> -- who seems to have lost interest in running the world's greatest city -- should mount a full court press to wrest control of the MTA from feckless Albany once and for all -- and perhaps salvage something of his tattered legacy. |
532e8c8e83ed9edfbbbb09d4de2d2c00b3dd010b5f47add04e2c6a3703eec2ad | ['4e0743155cdc4dfbb60950681af890e9'] | If the incarcerated adherents of the Christian Identity cult were clever, they would file suit asserting that their so-called religion prohibits the confinement of any of its members. Given recent judicial rulings which refuse to impose the slightest restriction upon claimed Christian religious practices, this theory should swiftly win the aggrieved inmates their release from prison.
Many years ago the U.S. Supreme Court had the audacity to suggest certain restrictions on the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech. Their ability to recognize the need to draw a line was essentially the logical product of rational, reasoned, thought. Now, sadly, such intellectual traits are easily and summarily dismissed by Justices so willing to facilitate and advance the agendas of the far right's religious extremism. | 94fc97a071da070edfa5d3d61e99023806bd45f16d8c6f92a0719316337bb0e7 | ['4e0743155cdc4dfbb60950681af890e9'] | <PERSON> Judicial rulings and votes fully legitimizing the election won't have the ability to enforce the electoral outcome if the people necessary to effect the transition, like <PERSON>, refuse to do it. Nearly every day another one of those key individuals swears an oath of loyalty to <PERSON>, or another is fired and replaced by one who is. |
09c4959ad70c6dd94712bb53d24bb5c073b1312f22c8bc240e1fea6214cb3710 | ['4e1bb0959db44414a65e77150a151e1a'] | These are very dangerous waters and long-held norms are under threat....As an example, there was a time when the US “failure” to defend the Saudi oil industry was unthinkable. Then dependencies changed.
It is still unthinkable that the US won’t support Israel. It is one of the few bipartisan sacred cows left. But Israel’s policies in the occupied territories and wholesale man-hug with <PERSON> have demonstrably increased the risk of eroding that bipartisan consensus.
<PERSON> has his work cut out indeed. And Iran’s precision missiles are far from the only new threats. | ef457104a3f9ca4ee97d0f71ac9cdb66535f33f7ff7117c10f2dc20f120ca24b | ['4e1bb0959db44414a65e77150a151e1a'] | This is how a civil war can start.
<PERSON> and his cronies will play every “red meat” card conceivable from here to November. Provoking street violence to play on Fox ”News” is going to be par for the course. Provoking a rally-round-the-troops foreign conflict, ditto. Declaring martial law to suspend the vote, ditto. Refusing to accept the election result, ditto. Neither Republicans nor the Justice Dept will stop him. So what will?
This road leads to the military holding the balance of power in America. The police and homeland security are spoken for. Generals who want nothing to do with politics may have no choice - defending the constitution will become “political” due to <PERSON>’s strategies for November.
This is how a civil war can start. |
8f24f39b8a8e97665498635228ad87851bcb70db48d41f30f9cd076693d87aee | ['4e321487df5b41ec92b6f0d02036cfbf'] | I see three people covered in mud, and the person at the bottom of the page looks like he's hurt, and he also has a phone in his hand, and what looks like goggles in the other. The two people above him all have rips in their clothing, and what looks like blood too. so from this information, I think that these three people were doing some sort of activity, and fell or got trapped in the mud, and the guy at the bottom looks like he got hurt, and the people at the top, look like they're helping him. | 8a06e30708bc78cb567e19b43d653ae4604be3fec2c0cf958d42acc916acd7b7 | ['4e321487df5b41ec92b6f0d02036cfbf'] | When I look at this picture, I see 10 men and one boy. I think it might be hot there because they are all wearing short sleeve shirts, and shorts, except for the boy. I also see a large body of water, and what looks to be some sort of baby stroller, cart, or basket that's red. The boy is laying down in the water, and what looks like a wave is pushing him, but what stops me from thinking he's having a good time, is his facial expression looks like he's mad or sad or frustrated of some sort. It also looks like they're on some sort of bridge, or maybe even on the sand of an ocean or river. From all this, I wonder If there on a doc or peer on a river, looking on out on the rest of the ocean, or river. |
d56058c7335e50be8964eee62e62284cd0fac46fae4a232bc8b0ecd0dfab60c1 | ['4e387e43eab0468c9516e8d12076fe97'] | <PERSON> This EXACTLY the country the Founders envisioned. The Senate loosely descends from the Counsel/Upper House body of the Virginia General Assembly. From Wikipedia: "The members of the Council were almost all wealthy and both socially and politically prominent. Independent wealth was required both for the social standing necessary for membership and also to permit the members to be absent from their families and plantations for long periods of time," according to the Encyclopedia Virginia. | ff634a3ee1d8b09ca3bb722c312a5cdc0ca2a836c44a69af8d76c75cf45b8c80 | ['4e387e43eab0468c9516e8d12076fe97'] | Let's be clear. The vast majority of hospital CEO's are NOT MD's. It been this way for years! Most CEO's and upperlevel management have zero medical or medically adjacent training (think MBAs, JDs). Therefore, it is disingenuous to interview Dr. <PERSON> as a "hospital administrator". The NYT knows better. It only furthers the narrative of the greedy rapacious doctor-in-charge fleecing patients for money. The reality is many physicians are leaving large legacy institutions and hospitals because they can no longer stomach the second guessing, gaslighting and infuriating interference of non-medical personnel in critical medical decisions. It's also interesting how the administration is MIA when there is a misadventure or worse a tragedy- they head for the hills. |
b00b63b30fb77ebdb83db8b98be03a277adb5739912f1d5e625a3ed9a0786914 | ['4e9d73b76d5443a288f33546c36846e8'] | @Stuck on a mountain
The caring and compassion you express about your fellow Americans fills me with sadness. Without health you have nothing. I'm so grateful I live in a part of the world that recognises this. Yes I pay taxes. Most likely more than you ever will and I don't mind at all that it pays for others medical needs. Why should I? All I can say is thank god for the NHS even though it's not perfect | 8738250cd79e84f96ac4c7b6a6c26f26d8c81effacf70074fc48cc60ad557454 | ['4e9d73b76d5443a288f33546c36846e8'] | Can I ask what is so wrong with independence?. Happy for Scotland to leave UK if that's what Scots want. Freedom to forge your own destiny in friendship. There are so many assumptions about why people voted to leave mostly referred to in economic terms or facile anti foreign rhetoric. Western European political systems are different to UK . Then add the eastern European countries just rediscovering there own voices.
This project started out as a trade deal....common market.....which uk joined with a small majority on a referendum. Due to political cowardice on part of UK government at time of Maastricht treaty no referendum was called to ask if we wanted to join a political union which will eventually work like USA system of government. (And that works smoothly doesn't it)
Freedom costs short term but will be worth it. No doubt politicians will make it as awkward as possible to feed their own egos but I have great hope we will remain friendly economic rivals than very discontented partners. |
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